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Quotes by Scientist
"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing."
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"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
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"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."
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"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
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"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
63
"The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way."
63
"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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"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
59
"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
59
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
59
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
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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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"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
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"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
57
"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am."
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"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
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"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
56
"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
56
"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online."
56
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
55
"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
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"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
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"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
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