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Quotes by Scientist
"The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department."
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"After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first."
45
"Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions-say 10 percent-of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion."
45
"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
44
"There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it."
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"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."
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"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."
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"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."
May,
44
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
Will,
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
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"The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one."
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"Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not."
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"Geometry was the first exciting course I remember."
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"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."
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"Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food."
Food,
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"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."
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"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
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"It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing."
44
"The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority."
44
"I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it."
Fact,
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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
44
"On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world."
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"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
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"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
44
"The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment."
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"All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets."
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"As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either."
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"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."
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"All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself."
Will,
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"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."
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"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."
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"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms."
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