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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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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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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each…
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The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as…
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing…
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy…
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…
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For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,…
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall…
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See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
— Philip James Bailey
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