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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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Exuberance is beauty.
— William Blake
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Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I…
— Charlie Chaplin
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A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
— Bob Black
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem…
— Lewis Thomas
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts…
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
— Alan Greenspan
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked…
— Gail Caldwell
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and…
— Robert Frost
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will…
— Chris Hedges
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