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Quotes by Scientist
"Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration."
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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
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"Think of another as you want God to think of you."
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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."
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"At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession."
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"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"
Life,
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"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
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"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense."
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"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles."
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"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."
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"He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed."
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"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."
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"We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart."
33
"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."
33
"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around."
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"Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you."
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"And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international."
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"Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure."
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"I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."
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"The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations. [A] successful gene will be one that does well in the environments provided by these other genes that it is likely to meet in lots of different bodies."
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"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
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