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Quotes by Scientist
!["These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame in Kentucky, masters make slaves work without being obliged to pay them, but they receive little fruit from their efforts, while the money that they would give to free workers would be recovered with interest from the value of their labors."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame in Kentucky, masters make slaves work without being obliged to pay them, but they receive little fruit from their efforts, while the money that they would give to free workers would be recovered with interest from the value of their labors."
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"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."
35
"Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted."
35
"You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it."
35
"If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important."
35
"A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time."
35
"My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symmetrical."
35
"The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal."
35
"The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me."
35
"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
35
"My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection."
35
"My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists."
35
"To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life."
35
"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
35
"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."
Mind,
35
"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
Mind,
35
"It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof."
34
"I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it."
34
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
34
"Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it."
34
"This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society."
34
"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
34
"That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out."
34
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
34
"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
34
"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves."
34
"The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of."
34
"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will."
34
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
34
"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."
34
"Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society."
34
"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages."
34
"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
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