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Quotes by Scientist
"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."
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"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
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"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."
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"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."
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"Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself."
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"This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen."
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"Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic."
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"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
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"In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people."
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"I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more."
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"The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love."
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"I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule."
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"In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life."
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"My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."
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"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
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"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."
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"You discuss philosophy about what you read but never really live the wisdom."
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"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
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"From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
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"If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do."
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