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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

James Watson

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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
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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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Dreams Education Ourselves Strive
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
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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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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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Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

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