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Quotes by Scientist
"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."
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"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
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"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past."
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"This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer."
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"Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it."
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"In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime."
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
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"The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute."
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"In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize."
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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"I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk."
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"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
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"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."
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"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
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"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning."
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"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
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"Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything."
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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."
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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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"All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government."
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"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."
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"The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitelyadapted to the ecology of the animal. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep."
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"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."
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"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."
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"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."
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"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."
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"People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so."
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"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
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