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CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.
It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.
In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
Lots of army officers... a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.
By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.