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Quotes by Scientist
"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."
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"When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor."
63
"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
63
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
63
"In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over."
63
"The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction."
63
"I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal."
63
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
63
"In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them."
63
"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
63
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
63
"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
63
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
63
"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
63
"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."
62
"Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body."
62
"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,
62
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
62
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
62
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
62
"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."
62
"We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition."
62
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
62
"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
62
"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life."
62
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."
62
"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
61
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
61
"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
61
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
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