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Quotes by Scientist
"Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services."
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"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
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"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
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"For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: 'Do we have life after death? Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: 'Do I really have a life before death?"
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"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."
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"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
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"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
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"There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it."
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"By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients."
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"Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you."
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"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."
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"I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen."
Now,
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"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."
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"For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom."
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"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
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"Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes."
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"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."
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"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."
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"The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced."
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"The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?"
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"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
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"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."
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"I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life."
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"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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"What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others."
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"In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul."
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"Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material."
Life,
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"True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions."
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"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
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"For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own."
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"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming."
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"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
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"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
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