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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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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,…
— J. G. Ballard
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good…
— James Howell
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Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say:…
— Albert Einstein
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From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than…
— Ernest Renan
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And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early…
— George Carlin
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
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Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
— Samuel Johnson
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,…
— Bob Hope
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