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Quotes by Scientist
"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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"It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."
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"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
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"A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching."
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"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
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"Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone."
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"I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."
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"In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone."
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"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects."
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"We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation."
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"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
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"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."
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"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment."
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"It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus."
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"That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."
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"Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid."
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"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."
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"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
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"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord."
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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
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"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
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"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code."
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"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."
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"I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them."
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"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."
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