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.
JAMES WATSONI have been much blessed.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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