Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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