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For NASA, space is still a high priority.

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

We're all living in a chemical soup.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.