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The computer can be a medium for communication, not just a tool for computation.

Ivan Sutherland

Computer Science

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Ted Nelson

Computer Science

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken

Computer Science

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a method for deciding whether what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.

Hope Jahren

Biology

I think it's important for people to realize that we're not all the same, and that's okay. We don't all have to be the same to be valuable.

Mayim Bialik

Biology

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Robert MacArthur

Biology

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Sylvia Earle

Natural History

We are not going to save the ocean by being nice to it. We are going to save the ocean by protecting it.

Enric Sala

Natural History

The Everglades are a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Natural History

We are a part of nature, not apart from it. When we damage nature, we damage ourselves.

David Suzuki

Natural History

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

Aretha Franklin

Music

The seed is the first link in the food chain, and the last link in the food chain. It is the beginning and the end of life.

Vandana Shiva

Natural History

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Wangari Maathai

Natural History

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are disturbed.

George Perkins Marsh

Natural History

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

John Audubon

Natural History

The ability to precisely edit DNA opens up incredible possibilities for treating genetic diseases, but it also raises profound ethical questions.

Jennifer Doudna

Biology

The human genome is not just a book of life, it's a book of possibilities.

Craig Venter

Biology

Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world, and its insights are breathtaking.

Francis Collins

Biology

The human mind is a device for escaping the present.

Peter Medawar

Biology

The dance of the honeybee is one of the most astonishing things in the world of animals.

Karl von Frisch

Biology