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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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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen…
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided…
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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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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself…
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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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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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing…
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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have…
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