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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other…
— Unknown Author
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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their…
— Ken Robinson
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Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
— Paul Nurse
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An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…
— John Updike
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The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but…
— Donald Knuth
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Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,
— Andrea Illy
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It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
— Lewis Thomas
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Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so…
— Roger Kimball
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The serendipity of melancholy a road we all travel on in life. An aesthetic experience we all share, the darkness that shines.
— Jeremy Limn
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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that…
— Leo Ornstein
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