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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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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen…
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided…
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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. ...…
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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of…
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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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If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even…
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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
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