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.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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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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