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Quotes by Scientist
"Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me."
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"But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are merely fallible and human? As soon as we admit that there are scriptural mistakes (or concessions to the ignorance of the times), then how can the Bible be an inerrant guide to ethics and morals? Might sects and individuals now accept as authentic the parts of the Bible they like, and reject those that are inconvenient or burdensome?"
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"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."
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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
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"The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism."
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"Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan."
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"So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure."
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"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."
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"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."
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"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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"There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue."
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"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
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"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."
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"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."
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"It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years."
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"A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative."
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"I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient."
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"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
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"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."
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"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."
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"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
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"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."
Life,
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"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
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"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."
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