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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

James Watson

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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
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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Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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Change Decision Mindset Need Time
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
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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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Genius Necessary Stupidity
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room

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