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Quotes by Scientist
"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
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"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
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"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
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"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
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"You have to know the past to understand the present."
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"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."
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"The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development."
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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."
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"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."
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"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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"The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
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"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
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"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."
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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
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"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
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"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
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"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
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"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
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"Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution."
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"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
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