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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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I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
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A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in…
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The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of…
— Osama bin Laden
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation,…
— Plato
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Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They…
— Walter Lippmann
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I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations…
— Tommy Hilfiger
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The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.
— Mason Cooley
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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later…
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