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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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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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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each…
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The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system…
— Scott Woods
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not…
— Herbert Spencer Jennings
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We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,…
— Hal Abelson
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When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.…
— Richard E. Pattis
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My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much…
— Lewis Thomas
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Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system…
— Benjamin Hoff
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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.
— Tim Harford
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You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point…
— Garrett Hardin
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