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Quotes by Scientist
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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"Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up."
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"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
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"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite."
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"In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over."
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"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."
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"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
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"The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction."
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"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
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"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
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"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
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"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."
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"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product."
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"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area."
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"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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"There are no miracles in agricultural production."
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time."
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"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
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"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
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"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology."
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"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric."
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