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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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I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get…
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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
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Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in…
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Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be…
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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on…
— Lewis Thomas
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You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for…
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