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"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."

"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

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"My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb."

"My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb."

Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist

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"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."

"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."

Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

Importance, Plants, Trees

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"True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense."

"True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Thought, Charity, Desire

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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."

"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

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"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Science, Suicide

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"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

Donald Knuth, American Scientist

Art, Science, Computer

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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

Software, Today, Writing

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"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it."

"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it."

Michael Servetus, Spanish Scientist

Life, People, Courage, Earth

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"You won't catch me giving clear lectures."

"You won't catch me giving clear lectures."

Donald Norman, American Scientist

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"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further."

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further."

Wernher von Braun, German Scientist

Tax, Promise, Will

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"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold."

"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold."

Edward Bach, English Scientist

Medical, Science, Thought, Failure

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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."

"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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"The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful."

"The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

Thought, Successful

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"Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."

"Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

Customer, Innovation

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"Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities."

"Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist

Care, Past, Will

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"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."

"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."

George Wald, American Scientist

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"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."

"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."

George Wald, American Scientist

People, Trouble, Want

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"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

Personality, Privacy, Public

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"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."

"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Being, Influence, Language, Programming

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"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."

"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

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"Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license."

"Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license."

John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist

Giving, Play, Wishes

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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."

"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."

Henri Bergson, French Scientist

Religion, Science

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"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist

Bugs, Challenge, Software, Writing

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"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."

"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."

Felix Bloch, Swiss Scientist

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"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."

"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."

Frederick Soddy, English Scientist

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"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."

"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."

Margaret Murray, British Scientist

People, Enthusiasm

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"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today."

"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

Difference, May, Opinion, Quarrel

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"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."

"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."

Ralph Merkle, American Scientist

Technology, Manufacturing

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"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."

"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."

Franz Boas, American Scientist

Home, Father, Affection, Freedom

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"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian Scientist

People, Knowledge, Man, Nothing

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"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."

"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Work, Development, Space

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"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"

"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist

Decision, Consequences

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"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."

"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

Invention, Inventions, Queen

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"I have achieved an inner freedom."

"I have achieved an inner freedom."

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Scientist

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"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."

"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Design, Contemplation, Old, Programming

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"Defect-free software does not exist."

"Defect-free software does not exist."

Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist

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"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

George Wald, American Scientist

Effect, Heaven, May, Saying

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"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."

"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."

Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist

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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."

"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."

Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist

Experience, Love, Being, Mathematics

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"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind."

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind."

George Washington Carver, American Scientist

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"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."

"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."

E. O. Wilson, American Scientist

Life, Quality, People, Environment

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"The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list."

"The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list."

Jack Kilby, American Scientist

Building, Dedication

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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

Galileo Galilei, Italian Scientist

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"The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me."

"The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me."

Elizabeth Blackwell, American Scientist

Idea, Winning, Fight, Struggle

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"Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful."

"Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Ethics, Knowledge, Power, Responsibility

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"It is the theory which decided what can be observed."

"It is the theory which decided what can be observed."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Science, Theory, Observation, Decision

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"All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation."

"All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Religion, Awe, Creation, Life

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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Life, Time, First, Right

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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Science, Fiction, May, Salvation

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