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• Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
• Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
• I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
• Reductionism is merciless.
• The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
• One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
• Irrationality is the square root of all evil

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