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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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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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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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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.
— Lewis Thomas
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I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid…
— Kevin Hearne
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Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I…
— Anna Akhmatova
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People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
— Henning Mankell
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A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
— Rene Char
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
— Rene Char
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Some memories aren't meant to leave traces.
— Kreyzii
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Many people step in your life, and leave traces in your heart, but out of them all, 1 NEVER leaves!
— Semeen Mahbub
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