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Quotes by Scientist
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
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"But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures."
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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
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"A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement."
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"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."
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"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked."
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"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
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"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues."
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"I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it."
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"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
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"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion."
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"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."
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"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction."
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"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."
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"Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning."
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"At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation."
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"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
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"A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?"
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"It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent."
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"Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts."
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"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
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"The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline."
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"These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world."
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"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
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"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."
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"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City."
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"And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation."
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"Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak."
Life,
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"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."
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"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
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"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"
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"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
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