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Quotes by Scientist
"The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works."
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"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system."
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"One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason."
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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
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"Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."
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"In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong."
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"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
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"The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more."
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"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."
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"The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace."
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"Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it."
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"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me."
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"To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism."
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"More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding."
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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."
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"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
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"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal."
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"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."
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"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
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"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?"
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"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
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"As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal."
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"One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future."
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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
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"We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us."
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"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future."
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"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."
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