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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 is an unscrutable…
- I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,…
- I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles…
- The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our…
- Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen…
- The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.…
- It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
- A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next…
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course…
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- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle