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"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
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"Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them."
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"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."
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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
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"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."
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"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle."
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"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."
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"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
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"The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees."
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"While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together."
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"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community."
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"The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature."
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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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"Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research."
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"My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology."
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"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."
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"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
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"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work."
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