I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONI have been much blessed.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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 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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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