scientist Quotes

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

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• crocodiles

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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• funny

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

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• teaching

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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• health

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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• ideas

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Laugh at the Absurdity of Life

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• life

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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• destiny

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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• Knowledge

You only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great.

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• life

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

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• opinion

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.

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• wisdom

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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• remedy

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

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• nature

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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• evidence

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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• sense

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

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• true

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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• Perfection

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

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• approval

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

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• actions

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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• Society

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

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• relationship

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

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• funny

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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• Reading

Power is the by-product of understanding.

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• Power

I waged war against my feelings.

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• against

The map is not the territory.

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• Travel

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

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• Intuition

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

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• Senses

It matters if you just don't give up.

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• Persistence

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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• environmental

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

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• borrow

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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• travel

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

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• consists

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

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• Marriage

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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• come

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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• Goals

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

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• adventure

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

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• Self

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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• Death

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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• Self

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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• against

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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• Propaganda

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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• People

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

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• Assumptions

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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• Space

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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• Parenting

Walking is a man's best medicine.

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• Medicine

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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• Hope

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

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• Friends

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

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• artificial