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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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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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But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a…
— Frank Bidart
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
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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,…
— Lewis Thomas
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Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
— Winston Churchill
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things…
— Booker T. Washington
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It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook…
— Neil Gaiman
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You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things,…
— Marc Benioff
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Romance relies upon the small things, to make the large things count.
— Xavier Streeter
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