The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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