I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I have been much blessed.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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