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593 Scientist Quotes

Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Ultimately Want Knowledge Mind
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It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.

Clear Lot Improvement
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.

What People Fiction Transformative
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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

People Try Succeed Sophisticated
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life Will learn Too late The living
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Great believer In luck The harder I work
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising The science Arresting Human intelligence
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Astronomy teachers Correct us The sun The planets
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Ancient times No statistics Fall back On lies
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Men To trust Exact degree Dishonesty
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Political economy Politics Economy
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Two things Ordinary conversation People dislike Information
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Detest Life insurance Always argue Some day
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Easier Ask Forgiveness Permission
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You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.

You Manage People Lead
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Accurate Worth Expert Opinions
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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.

Good Idea Ahead Do it
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Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

Leadership Loyalty Respect Superiors
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I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Always Interested Future Past
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way

Damaging Phrase Language Way
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No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Computer Ask Question People
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If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law

People Accident Coincidence Law
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I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

Take Need Give Want
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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth Complicated Allow Approximations
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Stable Processes Predict Control
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Problems Vague terms Problems
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

People Believe Mathematics Life
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think
Computers Human Everything Think
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Technological Possibilities Man Control
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Young Mathematics Understand
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Foolish People Selfish Nature
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Mathematics Language Primary Secondary
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't

God Things Easier Explain
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Entrepreneurial Success Innovation
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Book Nature Read God
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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Nature Critic Science Minds
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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Work hard Always Exciting Uncomfortably
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Arena Cosmic Earth Small
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Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Nothing Too good True
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A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Man Certain Right Wrong
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