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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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Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come…
— Stephen Hawking
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.…
— James A. Baldwin
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever…
— Lewis Thomas
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When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
— Pearl Bailey
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A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
— Anne Bancroft
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All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.
— Wes Fesler
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Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of…
— William J. Clinton
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For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science,…
— Jim Al-Khalili
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