The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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