There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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