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"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."
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"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."

"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."

"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."

"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."

"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."

"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."

"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."

"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."

"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."
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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

"We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life."

"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
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