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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,…
• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
• I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
• I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
• It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
• Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
• The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each…

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