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.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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.
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Moving 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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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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 is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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[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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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