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Quotes by Scientist
"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."
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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
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"Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure."
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"Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all."
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"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."
Act,
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"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company."
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"Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth."
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"Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science."
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"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."
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"Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment."
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"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."
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"I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help."
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
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"I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture."
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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
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"Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough."
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"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
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"Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination."
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"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about."
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"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other."
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"This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe."
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"In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived."
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"He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways."
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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
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"He was as great as a man can be without morality."
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"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
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"I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics."
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"Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another."
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"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."
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"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."
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"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
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"Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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