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Quotes by Scientist
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
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"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
50
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
50
"It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."
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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
50
"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
50
"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up."
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"Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach."
Day,
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"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."
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"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."
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"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."
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"There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything."
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
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"The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud."
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"Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger."
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"But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture."
50
"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
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"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
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"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
49
"After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters."
49
"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."
49
"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."
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"It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist."
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"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
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