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If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous.

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Prism: But how would society react to such a proposal?

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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

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Never be the brightest person in the room. … We're all imperfect.

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We knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game.

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Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

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Let's put it this way: I wouldn't buy gene-splicing stock for my grandmother.

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If you could make people with ten-point-higher IQs, we'd probably have fewer wars.

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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God.

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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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I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense.

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Be sure you have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s—.

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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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We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.

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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

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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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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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All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play. With luck, the structure would be a helix.

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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

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Imagination comes first in both artistic and scientific creations, but in science there is only one answer and that has to be correct.

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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.

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We wish to put forward a radically different structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. This structure has two helical chains each coiled round the same axis (see diagram).

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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders.... But even more important, I believe, there remains general ignorance about how science is done.

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It has been found experimentally that the ratio of the amounts of adenine to thymine, and the ratio of guanine to cytosine, are always very close to unity for deoxyribose nucleic acid.

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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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