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“Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity” quote by Bill Gates — Download Open image

“Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity”

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If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have…

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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the…

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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that…

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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting…

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Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the…

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.…

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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a…

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive…

Abraham Lincoln

Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not…

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There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,…

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

Arthur C. Clarke

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That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow…

Robert Anton Wilson

When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds…

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

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“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion…

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