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"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs."

"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs."

Cleveland Abbe, American Scientist

Life, Ignorance, Popular, Weather

40

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

40

"The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile."

"The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Profession, Seriousness, Smile, Character

40

"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."

"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

Expression, Language, Sense

40

"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."

"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."

Christiaan Barnard, South African Scientist

40

"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."

"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

Nature, Ability, Being, Worth

40

"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling."

"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling."

Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist

Government, Disaster

40

"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

Jamie Zawinski, American Scientist

40

"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."

"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."

Albert Szent Gyorgyi, Hungarian Scientist

Hope, Causes, Key, Study

40

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

40

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Day, Job, Years

40

"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."

"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."

Henri Bergson, French Scientist

Intelligence, Tools

40

"The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar."

"The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar."

Francis Crick, English Scientist

Balance, May, Study

40

"One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered."

"One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered."

Robert T. Bakker, American Scientist

Goal, Goals, Museums

40

"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour."

"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour."

Marvin Harris, American Scientist

Food, Sex, People, Wonder

40

"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."

"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

Country, Countries, Now, Want

40

"Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here."

"Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here."

David Kay, American Scientist

40

"During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago."

"During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago."

Norman Borlaug, American Scientist

Progress, Countries, Famine, Past

40

"New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation."

"New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation."

Ernst Mayr, German Scientist

Success, Successful, Evolution

40

"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it."

"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

40

"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely."

"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely."

Mary Leakey, British Scientist

Information, Yield

40

"It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion."

"It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

Religion, Time, School

40

"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."

"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."

Fred Hoyle, English Scientist

40

"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."

"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."

John James Audubon, American Scientist

40

"My family gave me the best in education."

"My family gave me the best in education."

William Standish Knowles, American Scientist

Education, Family

40

"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."

"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."

Claude Levi-Strauss, French Scientist

Language, Logic, Man, Nothing

40

"Science grows like a weed every year."

"Science grows like a weed every year."

Kary Mullis, American Scientist

40

"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."

"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

Information, Talk

40

"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

William Kirby, English Scientist

War, History, Now

40

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Children, Measure, Problems, Solution

40

"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."

"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Science, Books, Feminism, Writing

40

"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."

"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."

Gabriel Lippmann, French Scientist

Work, Progress, First, May

40

"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries."

"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries."

John Cameron, American Scientist

Medical, Time, Countries, Energy

40

"The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding."

"The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding."

John Warnock, American Scientist

Technology, People, Fact, Fault

40

"You should not ask questions without knowledge."

"You should not ask questions without knowledge."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

Knowledge, Questions

40

"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

Barry Commoner, American Scientist

Policy, Interest, Labor

40

"The emphasis should be on why we do a job."

"The emphasis should be on why we do a job."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

40

"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

40

"Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives."

"Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Woman, Women, Children, Wives

40

"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."

"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."

Sidney Altman, Canadian Scientist

Importance, Old, Scientists

40

"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc."

"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc."

David Bohm, American Scientist

Feelings, Language, Mind, Order

40

"Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer."

"Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

Time, Performance, Computer, Job

40

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

Animals, Being, Will

40

"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."

"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."

James Lind, Scottish Scientist

40

"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food."

"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

40

"There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system."

"There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system."

Steven Chu, American Scientist

Quality, Parents, Public, School

40

"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."

"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Work, Idea, Successful, Satisfaction

40

"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."

"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

40

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."

Esther Dyson, American Scientist

Technology, World

40

"We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha."

"We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha."

David Gill, Scottish Scientist

Time, Buying, Support

40

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