The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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