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Quotes by Scientist
"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
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"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
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"The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others."
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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that."
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"I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes."
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"Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
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"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."
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"A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities."
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"I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them."
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"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."
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"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
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"We especially need imagination in science."
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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement."
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"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design."
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"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."
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"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
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"Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification."
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"If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."
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"Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary."
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"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."
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"It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus."
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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
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"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
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"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
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"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."
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"Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up."
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"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable."
Man,
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"If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light."
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"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."
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"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."
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