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Quotes by Scientist
"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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"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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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum."
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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 more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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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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"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
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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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"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
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"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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"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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"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."
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"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."
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"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."
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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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"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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"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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"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."
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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
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"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
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"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."
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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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"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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"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
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"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
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"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."
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"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
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