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Quotes by Scientist
"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest."
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"Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs)."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."
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"The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others."
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"My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing."
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"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
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"Perhaps the most striking aspect of this entire subject is that there are nonhuman primates so close to the edge of language, so willing to learn, so entirely competent in its use and inventive in its application once the language is taught. But this raises a curious question: Why are they all on the edge? Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it seems to me, is that humans have systematically exterminated those other primates who displayed signs of intelligence."
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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter."
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"If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success inbusiness and life."
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"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
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"Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
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"Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam. And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact."
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"It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code."
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"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
Gain,
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"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"
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"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
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"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
Life,
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"Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock."
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"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."
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"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
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"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
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"In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima."
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"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem."
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"It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail."
Job,
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"I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level."
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