I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONA goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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