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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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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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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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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of…
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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is…
— Italo Calvino
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of…
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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