The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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