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593 Scientist Quotes

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

Produce Programme Stimulate Adult mind
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields

May hope Machines Will eventually compete Men
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Best way Predict The future Invent it
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If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

Business Could find Invent Agriculture
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Protean nature Computer Act like Machine
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If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Don't fail Percent The time Aiming high
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

People worry Artificial intelligence Feel inferior Right mind
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology Is anything Wasn't around Were born
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Science requires Society People Good thinkers
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation.

Few people Believe something Normal
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The future Laid out Can decide Extent
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view

School One point View Teacher has
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
In success Tendency Keep on Were doing
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element.

Most creativity Transition One context Where things
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

Change Is easy Except Part
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Fear Undergraduate degrees Computer science Java vocational
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Most Disastrous thing You can Ever learn
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Real romance Out ahead Come Computer revolution
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Any company Large enough Research lab Too large
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Important technology First create Problem Solve it
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

People who Really serious Software Own hardware
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

One door Closes Opens Often look
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Sometimes We stare So long Door
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Anything else Preparation Key Success
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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Educate The masses Elevate Standard
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I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Would impress Your minds Man justice Believe what
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

The nation Secures control The air Ultimately
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

This power Exists Becomes available Man
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Successful men The end Steady accretion
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

The day Man Telephone Be able
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Only difference Success Failure The ability
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
The achievement One goal Starting point Another
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

Concentrate Your thoughts Work Focus
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

One day Every Major city Have telephone
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Force ideas Successful Result Slow growth
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

God Wonders Through life Eyes shut
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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Glad Be young Future Without wilderness
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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Are some Can live Wild things Cannot
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Ethical behavior Right thing Watching Wrong thing
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We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Abuse land Commodity Belonging to We see
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

The mountain Lived Long enough Listen objectively
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We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Shall never Achieve harmony Land Absolute justice
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Last word Ignorance The man Who says
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All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

All conservation Wilderness Self defeating To cherish
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Is education A process Trading awareness Things
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

All strive For safety Prosperity Comfort
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The penalties Ecological education One lives World
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Education Fear Is learning To see
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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Land Community Basic concept Ecology
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Good life Any river Perception Its music
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