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Quotes by Scientist
"There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception."
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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
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"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."
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"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
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"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."
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"I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years."
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"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
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"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
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"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
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"And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced-too eagerly in my view-that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, as we shall see, they often make the illogical deduction that the hypothesis of God's existence, and the hypothesis of his non-existence, have exactly equal probability of being right."
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"A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone."
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"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
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"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
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"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
Open,
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"So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out."
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"Chance' is just a word expressing ignorance."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
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"Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left."
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"In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
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"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
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"I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre."
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"I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two."
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"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."
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"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
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"Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people."
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"It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
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