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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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While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I…
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Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
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Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
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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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From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.…
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.…
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…
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My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of…
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The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us…
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Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for…
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.…
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