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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.

— James D. Watson The Double Helix (1968)

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

Lifelines (1997)

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

I find such a moralistic response to be profoundly immoral.

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The thought that some people are innately wicked disturbs me.

To question genetic intelligence is not racism (2007)

Science Ph.D. students have effectively become serfs.

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