The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSON
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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[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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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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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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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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