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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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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does…
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People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was…
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No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
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Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of…
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When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten…
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
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Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
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Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever…
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I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.
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