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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.

— James D. Watson

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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.

DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003)

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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