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Quotes by Scientist
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
290
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
204
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
192
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
178
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
139
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
139
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
137
"You never fail until you stop trying."
134
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death."
131
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
127
"I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum."
122
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
122
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
122
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
122
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
120
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
120
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
119
"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
118
"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."
117
"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash."
116
"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
113
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
111
"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."
109
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
109
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
107
"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."
106
"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."
105
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
104
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
104
"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
99
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
98
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