It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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