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Quotes About Diversity

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
~ Gordon Allport
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.
~ Vladimir Putin
Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.
~ Graham Parke
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!
~ Gertrude B. Elion
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.
~ Kin Hubbard
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
~ John Charles Polanyi
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
~ Christiaan Huygens
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
~ Aaron Klug
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.
~ Metrodorus of Chios
Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
~ Steve Simmons
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
~ Allan McLeod Cormack
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
~ Charles Darwin
Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
~ Aaron Klug
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
~ Laurel Clark
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
~ Marissa Mayer
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
~ Alan Perlis
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
~ Lewis Thomas