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Quotes by Scientist
"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy."
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"As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme."
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"Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition."
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"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."
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"I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute."
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"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."
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"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."
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"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
Will,
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"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
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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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"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."
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"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
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"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."
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"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
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"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
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"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them."
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"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
Sea,
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"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough."
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"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees."
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"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."
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"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."
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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
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"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
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"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."
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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."
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"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."
Feet,
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