One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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