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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 distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)…
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this…
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
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I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in…
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The…
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Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side.…
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