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Quotes by Scientist
"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."
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"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
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"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
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"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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"My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort."
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"I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority."
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"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."
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"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
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"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."
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"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."
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"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."
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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
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"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
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"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
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"Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it."
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"This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones."
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"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."
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"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
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"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
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"She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time."
Time,
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"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting."
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"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."
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"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."
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"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."
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"As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt."
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"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
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"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
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"The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ."
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"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Idea,
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"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually."
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"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
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