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Quotes by Scientist
"It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle."
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"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."
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"I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius."
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"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."
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"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
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"There is no Master but the Master, he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet."
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"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
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"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
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"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet."
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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
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"The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
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"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."
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"We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
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"I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910."
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"In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity."
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"It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us."
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"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it."
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"The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity."
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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."
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"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."
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"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."
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"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
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"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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