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Quotes by Scientist
"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."
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"You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny."
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"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."
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"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
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"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb."
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"In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
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"I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on."
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"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."
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"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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"Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes."
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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
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"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
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"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
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"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."
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"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
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"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
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"Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."
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"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."
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"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
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"It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world."
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
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"We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves."
Wood,
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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."
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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers."
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"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."
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"The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire."
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"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."
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"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."
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