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Also known as Captain James Watson

Notable quotes

“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.”
— Foreword for Discovering the Brain (1992) by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii; often paraphrased: "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
“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?”
— "Risky Genetic Fantasies" in The Los Angeles Times (29 July 2001), p. M4
“Crick, however, was right. Our discovery put an end to a debate as old as the human species: Does life have some magical, mystical essence, or is it, like any chemical reaction carried out in a science class, the product of normal physical and chemical processes? Is there something divine at the heart of a cell that brings it to life? The double helix answer that question with a definitive No.”
— Introduction: The Secret of Life (p. xii)
“This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more.”
— Chapter 9, “Reading Genomes: Evolution in Action” (p. 242)
“The finding that there is a substantial genetic component to our behavior should not surprise us; indeed, it would be far more surprising if this were not the case. We are products of evolution: among our ancestors, natural selection indubitably exerted a strong influence over all traits that have figured in our survival.”
— Chapter 13, “Who We Are: Nature vs. Nurture” (pp. 384-385)
“With its direct contradiction of religious accounts of creation, evolution represents science’s most direct incursion into the religious domain and accordingly provokes the acute defensiveness that characterizes creationism.”
— Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 439)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“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.”
— Foreword for Discovering the Brain (1992) by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii; often paraphrased: "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
“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?”
— "Risky Genetic Fantasies" in The Los Angeles Times (29 July 2001), p. M4
“Crick, however, was right. Our discovery put an end to a debate as old as the human species: Does life have some magical, mystical essence, or is it, like any chemical reaction carried out in a science class, the product of normal physical and chemical processes? Is there something divine at the heart of a cell that brings it to life? The double helix answer that question with a definitive No.”
— Introduction: The Secret of Life (p. xii)
“This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more.”
— Chapter 9, “Reading Genomes: Evolution in Action” (p. 242)
“The finding that there is a substantial genetic component to our behavior should not surprise us; indeed, it would be far more surprising if this were not the case. We are products of evolution: among our ancestors, natural selection indubitably exerted a strong influence over all traits that have figured in our survival.”
— Chapter 13, “Who We Are: Nature vs. Nurture” (pp. 384-385)
“With its direct contradiction of religious accounts of creation, evolution represents science’s most direct incursion into the religious domain and accordingly provokes the acute defensiveness that characterizes creationism.”
— Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 439)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.