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.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
More James Watson Quotes
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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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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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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