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Quotes by Scientist
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"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
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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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"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
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"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
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"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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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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"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."
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"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
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"Success is mainly the result of hard work."
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"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"There are no miracles in agricultural production."
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"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
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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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"At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova."
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"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
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"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
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"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
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"After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that."
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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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"Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific."
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"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
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"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
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"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
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"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform."
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"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language."
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