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.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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