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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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
— Stokely Carmichael
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone…
— Francesca Annis
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a…
— Piers Anthony
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The…
— Lucretius
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I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.
— Shirin Ebadi
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I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for…
— John Eccles
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The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
— George Gaylord Simpson
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If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did…
— Maxine Waters
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I am a firm believer in The Paleo Solution. I maintain a hectic schedule that starts early and finishes late. Filming a…
— Eva LaRue
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It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those…
— Wess Stafford
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I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
— Amanda Palmer
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As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying…
— Gary Bauer
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