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.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I have been much blessed.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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