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Quotes by Scientist
"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use."
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"In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity."
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"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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"I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative."
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"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."
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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
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"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
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"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."
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"It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth."
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"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
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"I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function."
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"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."
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"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
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"The only barrier that's blocking us from living an abundant life is our unwillingness to share what we have."
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"Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time."
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"For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria."
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"The people who overcome their fears are the ones who can achieve their dreams."
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"If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not."
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"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."
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"Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song."
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"A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources."
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"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."
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"I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands."
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"That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else."
Fear,
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"For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before."
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