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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. — Joseph Conrad
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons.… — Tim Berners-Lee
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains. — Herbert Spencer
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. — Walt Whitman
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. — Virginia Woolf
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just… — Brian Andreas
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original… — Dave Barry
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius

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