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Quotes by Scientist
"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
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"At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova."
38
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
38
"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."
38
"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."
38
"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
38
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
38
"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart."
38
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
38
"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
38
"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
38
"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
37
"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
37
"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."
Time,
37
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
37
"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric."
37
"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."
37
"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."
37
"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
37
"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."
37
"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political."
37
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
37
"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."
37
"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."
36
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
36
"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
36
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
36
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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