Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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