The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONI 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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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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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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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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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