The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I have been much blessed.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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