Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONEver 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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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 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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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