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You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.
Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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.
The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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?
At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.