The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONScience 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.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot 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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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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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