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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.

James Watson

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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Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
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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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
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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