DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON
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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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