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People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.
I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
The truth will finally come out and the truth is: If LSD is used in the right way, it is a very important and very useful agent.
Saturn itself is a giant planet, and there's much to be gained by investigating its meteorology and studying its magnetic field.
In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.