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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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But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was…
— Raul Hilberg
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We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be,…
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We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the…
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
— Donald Knuth
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There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people…
— Leo Ornstein
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.…
— Mark Skousen
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and…
— Herman Melville
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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
— David Miliband
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