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Quotes by Scientist
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
154
"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."
154
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
154
"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."
153
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
153
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death."
153
"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing."
152
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
152
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
152
"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."
150
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
149
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
149
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
147
"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
146
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
146
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
146
"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."
145
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
144
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
143
"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
143
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
143
"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
142
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
142
"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
142
"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
142
"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money."
135
"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."
133
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
132
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"
127
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
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