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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, like the particles…
- Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
- We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll…
- The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
- Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the…
- Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the…
- Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music…
- We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing…
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most…
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads,…
- We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me…
- Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and…
- I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics,…
- The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,…
- We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes…
- Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is…
- We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial…
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