We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSONThe 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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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 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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