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Science Quotes by James D. Watson
- One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
- A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
- 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…
- Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
- Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- 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…
- The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of…
- I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
- Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
- We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
- 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…
- Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
- I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it…
- My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good…
- It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the…
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov