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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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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying…
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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.
— Sun Tzu
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There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
— Bernard Nathanson
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a…
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the…
— John Beddington
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to…
— Unknown Author
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A bold onset is half the battle.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his…
— Aaron T. Beck
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the…
— Alan Greenspan
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We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers.…
— Dan Burton
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The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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