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Quotes by Scientist
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
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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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"Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work."
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"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
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"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
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"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."
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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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"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
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"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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"A new concept of god: "something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they meant was that here were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe. Laws of nature that apply not just locally, not just in Glasgow, but far beyond: Edinburgh, Moscow, Mars, the center of the Milky Way, and out by the most distant quarters known. That the same laws of physics apply everywhere is quite remarkable. Certainly that represents a power greater than any of us."
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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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"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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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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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product."
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"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."
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"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."
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"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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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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"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
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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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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology."
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."
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"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
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