Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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