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Physicist Inspirational Quotes (10904)

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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Carl Sagan
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
Benjamin Franklin
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All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
Mario Bunge
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Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan
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What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
Henri Poincare
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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Frederick Soddy
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Blaise Pascal
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Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.
Walter A. Shewhart
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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
Immanuel Kant
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The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
Amory Lovins
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I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
Amory Lovins
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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
Amory Lovins
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Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
Amory Lovins
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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
Amory Lovins
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I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
Amory Lovins
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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
Amory Lovins
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Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
Amory Lovins
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We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
Amory Lovins
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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
Amory Lovins
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The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often
Murray Gell-Mann
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We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
Amory Lovins
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NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.
Walter Cunningham
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