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"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."

"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."

John James Audubon, American Scientist

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"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."

"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Men, Difference, Error

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"People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language."

"People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language."

Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist

People, Language, Programming, Want

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"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Wealth, Nothing

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"Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war."

"Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war."

Philip Morrison, American Scientist

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"This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case."

"This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case."

Albert Claude, Belgian Scientist

Death, Work, Mother, Appreciation

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"At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around."

"At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around."

Rudy Rucker, American Scientist

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"I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha."

"I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha."

John Warnock, American Scientist

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"The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years."

"The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years."

Edward T. Hall, American Scientist

Time, Future, Years

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"The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept."

"The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

Business, Attention

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"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."

"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

Country, Energy, Giving, May

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"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."

"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."

Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist

Health, Man, Sickness

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"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

David Suzuki, Canadian Scientist

Home, Future, Key, Now

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"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer."

"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

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"Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing."

"Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing."

Robert Ballard, American Scientist

Time, Exploration, Now, Ships

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"I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes."

"I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes."

Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist

Eye, Eyes, First, Snow, Winter

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"Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible."

"Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible."

Luc Montagnier, French Scientist

Goal, Disease, Will

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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."

"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

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"I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python."

"I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

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"I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced."

"I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

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"Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors."

"Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors."

Irving Langmuir, American Scientist

Benefit, Benefits, Mankind, Scientists

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"We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team."

"We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team."

J Allard, American Scientist

Company, Service

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"No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem."

"No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem."

Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist

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"The quality of life is more important than life itself."

"The quality of life is more important than life itself."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

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"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."

"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."

Esther Dyson, American Scientist

Government, Importance, Press, Saying

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"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory."

"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory."

Clyde Tombaugh, American Scientist

Time, Country, Memory, World

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"Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?"

"Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?"

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Competence, Superficiality, Perception, Capability, Truth

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"I've never worked with the Java community."

"I've never worked with the Java community."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

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"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

History, Time, Being, First

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"Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection."

"Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

Nature, Day, Man

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"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

Idea, Knowledge, Beliefs, Books

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"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."

"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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"When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious."

"When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Justice, Law, Fairness, Effectiveness

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"As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs."

"As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs."

Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist

Experience, Fact, Obvious

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"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."

"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."

John Pople, English Scientist

College, Examination, Mathematics, October

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"Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower. Rather, education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved."

"Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower. Rather, education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Education, Learning, Children, Knowledge

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"Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life."

"Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life."

George Andrew Olah, American Scientist

Life, Time, Age, May

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"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."

"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Power, Humanity

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"Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds."

"Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds."

Sydney Brenner, British Scientist

Science, Work, Excitement, Meeting

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"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

Education, Science, Interest, Pressure

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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."

"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."

William Standish Knowles, American Scientist

College, School

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"Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order -in short, of government."

"Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order -in short, of government."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Society, Peace, Justice, Law, Order

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"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science."

"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

Science, Curiosity, Interest, World

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"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."

"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."

Benjamin Spock, American Scientist

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"I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life."

"I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life."

Barbara McClintock, American Scientist

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"Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more."

"Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more."

Marvin Minsky, American Scientist

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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist

Success, Failure, Elegance, Luxury

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"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."

"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

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"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."

Joshua Lederberg, American Scientist

Society, Harm, Risk

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"From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus."

"From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

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