Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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 scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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 biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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