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.
JAMES WATSON
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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 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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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