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I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.