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Quotes by Scientist
"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
Body,
38
"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."
38
"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."
38
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
38
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
38
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
38
"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."
38
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
38
"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
38
"The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired."
38
"Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain."
38
"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
38
"All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer."
38
"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."
38
"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved."
38
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
38
"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."
38
"An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties."
38
"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."
Fact,
38
"I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942."
38
"The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect."
38
"I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species."
38
"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security."
38
"A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation."
38
"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection."
38
"Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored."
38
"I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home."
38
"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
38
"The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science."
38
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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