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.
JAMES WATSONAs an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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