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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, like the particles…
- The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to…
- We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways…
- The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals…
- The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
- Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all…
- I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that…
- Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
- A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths,…
- Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is…
- We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to…
- We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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