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- We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it…
- It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the…
- At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species…
- Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In…
- Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a…
- We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- 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…
- Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious…
- The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of…
- The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,…
- The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of…
- We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the…
- We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since…
- 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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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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