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Quotes by Scientist
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
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"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."
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"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."
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"The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, especially to the many feminist women who have developed and tested the theory. The core of feminism is surely the goal of ending sexual discrimination and exploitation, an ethical and political position that is in no danger of being refuted by any foreseeable scientific theory or discovery."
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"They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing."
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"To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few."
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"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
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"A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on."
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"The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC."
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"We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth."
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"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."
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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense."
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"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
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"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical."
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"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket."
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"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
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"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."
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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
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"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
Life,
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"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly."
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