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.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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