There are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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