Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONMoving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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