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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.”
Lorraine Lee Cudmore Quotes |
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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.”
Macneile Dixon Quotes |
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“Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.”
Sam Ervin Quotes |
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“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”
Martin Henry Fischer Quotes |
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“It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.”
Newt Gingrich Quotes |
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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.”
Max Gluckman Quotes |
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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.”
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
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“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes |
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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.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Thomas H. Huxley Quotes |
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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.”
Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
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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.”
Charles F. Kettering Quotes |
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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.”
Konrad Lorenz Quotes |
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“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
John Von Neumann Quotes |
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“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”
Linus Pauling Quotes |
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“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
Dan Quayle Quotes |
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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.”
John Reader Quotes |
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“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
George Santayana Quotes |
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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.”
Adam Smith Quotes |
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“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
Edward Teller Quotes |
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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.”
Lewis Thomas Quotes |
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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.”
Paul Valery Quotes |
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“We're all living in a chemical soup.”
Lance A. Wallace Quotes |
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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.”
James D. Watson Quotes |
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“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”
Frank Wilczek Quotes |
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