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.
JAMES WATSONRacists 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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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[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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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