The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSON[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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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[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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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