There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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[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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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 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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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