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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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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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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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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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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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The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,…
— Laurence Sterne
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
— Jerry Pournelle
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It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must…
— Joseph Murray
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It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
— William Lane Craig
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald Fisher
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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and…
— Otto Weininger
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Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made…
— Peter Medawar
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The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena…
— Carl Jung
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