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Quotes by Scientist
"Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
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"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."
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"Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body."
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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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"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
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"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."
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"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
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"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
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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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"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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"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
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"The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them."
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"An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version."
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"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
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"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
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"When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor."
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"It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries."
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"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
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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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"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."
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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."
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"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
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"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
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"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political."
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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
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"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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