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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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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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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each…
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The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as…
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the…
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When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
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Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
— Arne Jacobsen
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We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally,…
— Lewis Thomas
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Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as…
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The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally…
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The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
— Tucker Max
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The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably…
— Kevin Roberts
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