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Quotes by Scientist
"One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political."
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"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."
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"My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist."
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"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
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"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
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"I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate."
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"Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible."
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"One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity."
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"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
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"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
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"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
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"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."
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"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
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"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
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"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
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"I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game."
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"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time."
Time,
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"Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely."
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"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
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"One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important."
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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
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"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man."
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"Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent."
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"Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway."
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"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."
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"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
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"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."
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"It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not."
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"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind."
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