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"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining"
Jef Raskin, Scientist
"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before"
Owen Chamberlain, Scientist
"There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die"
William Harvey, Scientist
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity"
Dennis Ritchie, Scientist
"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man"
Michael Servetus, Scientist
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers"
Lewis Thomas, Scientist
"Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause"
Johannes P. Muller, Scientist
"We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance"
Warren Weaver, Scientist
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them"
Dennis Gabor, Scientist
"No water, no life. No blue, no green"
Sylvia Earle, Scientist
"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"Freedom and order are not incompatible... Truth is strength... Free discussion is the very life of truth"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs"
Desmond Morris, Scientist
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"I am not a madman or a nut"
Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist
"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me"
Robert T. Bakker, Scientist
"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum"
Robert T. Bakker, Scientist
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