There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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 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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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