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"I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, 'You know what will save the world You're holding it in your hand.' And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking
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"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." »Harrison Ford
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"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population." »David Letterman
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"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." »Dave Letterman
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"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed." »William Jennings Bryan
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"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." »Richard Feynman
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"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." »Claude Levi-Strauss
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"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions." »Claude Levi-Strauss
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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." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier." »Shimon Peres
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." »Albert Einstein
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." »Albert Einstein
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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
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"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." »Marie Curie
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"If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double." »Robert H Bork
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"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty
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"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty, 1955
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"Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error." »Joyce
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"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." »M. Cartmill
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"Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied." »Kedar Joshi
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
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"I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented." »Roger King
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"The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether." »Max Percy
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"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." »J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
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"I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain that makes you want to study the brain." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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