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.
JAMES WATSONIt’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
More James Watson Quotes
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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I have been much blessed.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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