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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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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others…
— David Bohm
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
— Tony Campolo
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to…
— Sarah Schulman
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When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the…
— David Korten
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We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the…
— Mark Hatfield
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
— Thomas Huxley
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
— Chuck Jones
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. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people…
— Michael Lerner
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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
— Laozi
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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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