One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONTake 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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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