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Quotes by Scientist
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
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"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."
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"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world."
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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it."
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations."
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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
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"Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted."
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"The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world."
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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
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"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
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"It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries."
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"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
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"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before."
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"The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists."
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"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
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"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
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"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
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"There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels."
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"We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity."
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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
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"The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere."
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"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
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"I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack."
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"We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park."
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"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."
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"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
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"My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms."
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
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