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Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.
My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn't expect it to look so detailed.
There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.
This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.
If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.
To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.
The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.
The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.
Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.
The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.