Quotes by Scientists

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms. Barry Marshall

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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. Ben Carson

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When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Ben Carson

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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you? Ben Carson

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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America. Ben Carson

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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Ben Carson

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What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. Ben Carson

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The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation. Ben Carson

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I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. Benjamin Banneker

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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock

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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite. Carl Sagan

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Charles Darwin

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Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. Craig Venter

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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts. Daniel Levitin

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. Donald Knuth

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. E. O. Wilson

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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. E. O. Wilson

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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. E. O. Wilson

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. E. O. Wilson

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. Emanuel Swedenborg

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values. Fei-Fei Li

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I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith. Francis Collins