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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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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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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to…
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I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The…
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must…
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Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in…
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes…
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.
— Jeffrey Fry
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