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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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"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
"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."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."
"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
"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."
"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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"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."
"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."
"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."
"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."
"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
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