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• When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's designed in order to be elected.
  It seems to be a central problem for politicians....
• But then a new problem came up: the Jupiter probe, Galileo, was going to use a power supply that runs on heat generated by radioactivity.
  If the shuttle carrying Galileo failed, radioactivity could be spread over a large area....
• My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman.
  I remember asking him the question "How can a man of integrity be a salesman?...
• When I left the meeting, I had the definite impression that I had found the same game as with the seal
  management reducing criteria and accepting more and more errors that weren't designed into the device, while the engineers are screaming from below, "HELP!...
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
  -- Richard P. Feynma...
• I do not care what others think of me because I know that they don't think of me at all.
  -- Dan Goodma...
• Kids, let me tell you about another so-called [makes quotation marks with fingers] "wicked" guy.
  He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn't always do what other people thought was right....