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Quotes by Scientist
"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that."
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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
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"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
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"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
61
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights."
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"The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air."
Wood,
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
61
"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content."
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"Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any."
60
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
60
"The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis."
60
"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."
60
"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."
60
"As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards."
60
"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
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"Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof."
60
"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."
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"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
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"It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed."
60
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
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"With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb."
60
"Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature."
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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."
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"Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years."
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
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