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.
JAMES WATSONWe’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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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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