The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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