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Physicist Inspirational Quotes (10922)

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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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Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.
Walter Cunningham
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Don’t be one of those souls who says, ‘If only I had my life to live over.’ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.
Walter Cunningham
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NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.
Walter Cunningham
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We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
Carl Sagan
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This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel
Walter Dornberger
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
Walter Gilbert
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