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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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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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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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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