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Quotes by Scientist
"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
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"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
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"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."
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"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."
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"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."
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"The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses."
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"Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism."
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"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."
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"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."
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"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
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"Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
End,
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"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."
Will,
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"Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection."
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"Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use."
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"Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand."
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"The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits."
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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
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"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
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"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would."
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"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages."
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"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
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"For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand."
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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance."
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
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"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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