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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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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."
"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."
"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."
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"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight."
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
"Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science."
"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
"The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly."
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