One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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