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Quotes by Scientist
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."
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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."
38
"For each of our actions there are only consequences."
38
"When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next."
38
"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
38
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."
38
"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that."
Self,
38
"We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender."
38
"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
38
"Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn."
38
"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."
38
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
38
"I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard."
38
"I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us."
38
"Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal."
38
"My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife."
38
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
38
"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
38
"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
38
"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
38
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."
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"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
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"As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment."
38
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
38
"Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method."
38
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
38
"The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location."
38
"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
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