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Quotes by Scientist
"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
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"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"Force always attracts men of low morality."
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"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments."
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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
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"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
57
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
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"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
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"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."
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"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language."
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"Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms."
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"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
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"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
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"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
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"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."
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"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
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"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
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"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
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"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
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"The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus."
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"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
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"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."
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"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."
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"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
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"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."
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