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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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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…
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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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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right…
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part…
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Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without…
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
— Catullus
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