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Quotes by Scientist
"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."
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"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"
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"If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight."
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"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness."
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"Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
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"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."
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"When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision."
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"The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies."
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"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it."
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"Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles."
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"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
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"At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people."
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"It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are."
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"You are worthy. Don't be lazy."
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"In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension."
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"You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."
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"Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries."
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"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."
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"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."
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"We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing."
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"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
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"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."
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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."
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