A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

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.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.