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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 Watson

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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
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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Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
[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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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
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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Change Decision Mindset Need Time

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.

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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.

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