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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. Walter Gilbert

Science Independence Thought Virtues Skepticism

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. Wernher von Braun

Best Technology Gift Mother Thought Long First Pants Telescope Would Like Most Make Boy Got Get Confirmation Pair Watch

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. William Masters

Truth Science Dimension Moral Seek Morality Does Built Itself Establish

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. William Osler

Alone Struggle Worth Made True Ideals Been Effort Certain

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating. Adam Riess

Life Daily Edge Fall Universe Trees Would Could Throw Observe Know Accelerate Because Daily Life Apple Apples Gravity

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown. Ahmed Zewail

Science Unknown About Concept Reveal Quest Curiosity Rover

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous. Akira Suzuki

Valuable Research Believe Finding Crops Faculty Concept Sought Were Up Often Being Researchers Serendipity Agreeable Things Phenomenon

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay

Today Integrity Other Software Top Thousands Structural Brute Brute Force Pyramid Like Most Force Piled Very Done Egyptian Just Much Bricks Each Millions Slaves

It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.' Alan Kay

Change People Controlling Group Think Everything Books Online Gives Somewhat Information Which Then Us Hard Thing

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. Alan Perlis

Language Programming Programming Language Programs Attention Irrelevant Low Require Level

To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to. Alan Stern

You Vision Analyze Back Everyone Back Up Bit Respond Invested Individually Up Different Little Stakeholders Little Bit Really Your Who Keep

Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet. Alan Stern

History Long Half Active Numerous Scale Would Pluto Examples Small Fact Like Massive Geological Still Years Off Expected In Fact Planet Planets Across Billion Cool Showing Activity Four

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Mind Accident Meeting Said Discovery Prepared

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. Alexander Fleming

Thought Perception First Enterprise Out Details Lone Individual Advance Idea Prime Makes Due Subject May Worked Worker Team Who

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Alexis Carrel

Great Men Analysis Gifted Intuition Great Men Know Without Reasoning Need

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. Alexis Carrel

Reality Perception Intuition Very Close Appears

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Alexis Carrel

Strength Religion Spiritual Man Peace Light Ineffable Inner Brings Inner Strength

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Alexis Carrel

Reality Dangerous Fog Long Too Those Libraries Atmosphere Like Lecture Up Them Rooms Themselves Us Separates Who Shut

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. Alexis Carrel

Life Best Personality Out Indispensable Conditions Human Hard Human Personality Bringing

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. Alfred Nobel

Love Food Heart Digest More Forced Than Stomach To Love Persuasion

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