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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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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
— Joseph Murray
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The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does…
— St. Vincent
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The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up,…
— Pliny the Elder
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
— Joseph Murray
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and…
— Edmund Burke
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We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to…
— Lewis Thomas
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