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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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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…
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I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction.…
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I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of…
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I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.
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A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
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If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of…
— Abby Johnson
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The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The…
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