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.
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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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