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Quotes by Scientist
"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried."
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"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."
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"There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything."
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"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."
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"The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives, past and present - and to come - forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time... An individual life is one thread in the tapestry, and what is one thread compared to the whole?"
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"Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached."
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"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
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"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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"The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions."
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"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age."
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"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."
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"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
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"More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right."
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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science."
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"A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end."
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"It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy."
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"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
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"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."
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"By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
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"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
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"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind."
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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
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"I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter."
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"I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine."
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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
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