Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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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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.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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