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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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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
— Lewis Thomas
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What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by…
— Eugene Mirman
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No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog…
— W.C. Fields
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Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?
— Jack Whitehall
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I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and…
— Roone Arledge
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…
— Lev Grossman
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Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
— Kevin Nealon
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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead…
— Bruce Coville
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What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how…
— Kelley Armstrong
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was…
— Daniel Bruhl
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So one day as a kid I was at the local Zoo. I was bored and kept pestering my Dad to go…
— Robert Paul
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Crawling from hell Fallen from grace And there is nothing left to take Leaving the past to the grave So we can…
— Patience
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