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Quotes by Scientist
"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
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"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
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"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
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"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."
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"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
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"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
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"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
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"Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand."
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"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
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"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."
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"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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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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"And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that."
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"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
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"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
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"I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius."
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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
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"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
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"For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation."
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