Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
More James Watson Quotes
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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I have been much blessed.
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