Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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.
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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