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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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Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
— Bryan Clay
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Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment
— Shri Radhe Maa
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Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers…
— Morgan Spurlock
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People can become anything under the right conditions.
— Phil Pringle
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny…
— Johnny Carson
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You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
— Helmut Newton
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Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of…
— Lucas Papademos
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Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will…
— Lewis Thomas
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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions,…
— Margaret Atwood
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A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He…
— Richard J. Foster
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Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning…
— Terry Goodkind
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One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and…
— Terry Pratchett
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