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Quotes by Scientist
"The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons."
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"The Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants."
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"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
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"But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically."
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
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"It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."
Work,
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"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space."
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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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"Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player."
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"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
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"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."
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"The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality."
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"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."
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"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."
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"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
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"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
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"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."
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"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
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"Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden."
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"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."
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"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe."
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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
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"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
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"I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber."
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"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
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"But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
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"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
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"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."
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"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."
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