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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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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
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Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires…
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make…
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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes…
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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