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Quotes by Scientist
"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"
Will,
48
"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
48
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
48
"Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if you detect a flaw in this argument, it is reason that allows you to point it out and defend an alternative."
48
"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."
48
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
48
"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
48
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
48
"First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes."
48
"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."
48
"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."
48
"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
48
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics."
48
"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."
48
"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
48
"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
48
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
48
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
48
"No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery."
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"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."
48
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
48
"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
48
"Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!"
48
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
48
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
48
"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
48
"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
48
"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."
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"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East."
48
"The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels."
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