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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