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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Author: David H Comins
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Author: Thomas H. Huxley
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A satellite has no conscience.
Author: Edward R. Murrow
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Author: Lewis Thomas
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Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
Author: Walter Mossberg
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Author: Clifford Stoll
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
Author: John Perry Barlow
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
Author: John Perry Barlow
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
Author: John Perry Barlow
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It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Author: Esther Dyson
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Author: Stephen W. Hawking
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Author: Carl Sagan
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.
Author: Scott Mcneely
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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Author: Wernher Von Braun
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Author: John Dewey
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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Author: Les Brown
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Author: Charles H. Duell
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Author: 'doc' Edgerton
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The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Author: Thomas Huxley
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Author: Charles Sanders Pierce
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Author: Russell Baker
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I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
Author: James H. Boren
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Author: Wernher Von Braun
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
Author: Lorraine Lee Cudmore
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
Author: Macneile Dixon
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Author: Sam Ervin
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Author: Martin Henry Fischer
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It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
Author: Newt Gingrich
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Author: Max Gluckman
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Author: Heinrich Heine
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Author: Thomas H. Huxley
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Author: Konrad Lorenz
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Author: John Von Neumann
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Author: Linus Pauling
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For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Author: Dan Quayle
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In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
Author: John Reader
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Author: George Santayana
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Author: Adam Smith
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Author: Edward Teller
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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.
Author: Lewis Thomas
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Author: Paul Valery
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We're all living in a chemical soup.
Author: Lance A. Wallace
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
Author: James D. Watson
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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Author: Frank Wilczek
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