One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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 most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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