Quotes with semi-scientists

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  • Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alan Alda Kids are natural scientists.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Harry Houdini Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Bill Vaughan Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Gershenson Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...
    Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007)
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Koestler Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • James P. Hogan Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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  • Jonathan Katz Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Lewis Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Barry Commoner The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bernie Sanders The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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