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| Edward Teller |
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| "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective." |
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| Edward R. Murrow |
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| "A satellite has no conscience." |
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| Max Planck |
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| "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." |
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| Alan Perlis |
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| "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." |
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| Adam Smith |
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| "Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty." |
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| Mary Kay Ash |
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| "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." |
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| Margaret Mead |
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| "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess." |
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| Jane Howard |
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| "Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world." |
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| John von Neumann |
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| "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." |
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| Jay Leno |
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| "Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution." |
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