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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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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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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of…
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When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
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Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially…
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This…
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Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are…
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Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
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Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone.…
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If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe…
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