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Quotes by Scientist
"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."
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"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
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"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
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"Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view."
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"We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light."
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"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."
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"Quality is everyone's responsibility."
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"The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."
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"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times."
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"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."
War,
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"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
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"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
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"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
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"I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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"Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity."
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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
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"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."
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"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."
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"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
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"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
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"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus."
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"Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature."
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"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
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"It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule."
Now,
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"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
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"Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant."
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