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Quotes by Scientist
"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."
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"That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race."
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"Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done."
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"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
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"In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it."
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"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
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"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."
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"Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so."
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"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."
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"In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions."
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"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research."
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"These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov."
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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"And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue."
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"Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible."
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"I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."
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"The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome."
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"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."
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"Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion-that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God-jeopardises the teaching of biology in science class, since teaching that would violate the separation of church and state!' Right. You also ought to soft-pedal physiology, since it declares virgin birth impossible."
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"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
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"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
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"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."
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"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
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