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Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Disaster Experiments Hypotheses Nothing Periods Research Unpredictable Works Wrong Your

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I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Advance Also Bear Cannot Conditional Crossed Despair Disaster Everyone Faith Faithfully Fingers Heart Hope Kind Know Like Lose Love Made Much Pray Some Test Think Those Too Too Much Ways Which Would You I Think

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The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

~Fred Hammond

Topics: Bible Crazy Disaster Mayhem Novel Victory War

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So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

~Fred Wilson

Topics: Business Capital Disaster Folks Follow Herd Highly Investments Investors Just Many Momentum Purchasing Recipe Sheep Venture Venture Capital Want

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There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

~Gary L. Francione

Topics: Agriculture Animal Dairy Disaster Diseases Eat Eggs Environmental Foods Human Increasingly Indeed Linked Meat Need Planet Us Various

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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

~Gary Numan

Topics: Always Away Contradictions Difficult Disaster Going Life Live Lot Me Moody My Life Person Step Therapy Very

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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Actions Also Crisis Delivered Depend Disaster Effective Enough Get Hopelessly Human Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Informal Katrina Large Like Must Networks Overcome Pause Series Tendency Them Trigger Truth Truth Is Warnings Work

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If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

~Gaylord Nelson

Topics: Address Continue Create Disaster Environment Here Issue Live Lives Only Ourselves Species Though Where

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Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.

~Gene Green

Topics: After Been Chooses City Died Disaster Expediency Fire Over People Pipeline Safety Shown Texas Time Where Whether

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The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.

~Geoffrey Hinton

Topics: Big Big Mistake Disaster Fact Mistake Networks Operation Used Well Works

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