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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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A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game.…
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My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we…
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The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a…
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I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
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Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and…
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Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed…
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Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and…
— Lewis Thomas
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But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
— Chris Kyle
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