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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it.…
— Jean Cocteau
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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…
— Lewis Thomas
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More…
— John Dos Passos
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is,…
— John Flavel
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Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times…
— Elie Wiesel
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Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
— John Powell
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We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game…
— Jurgen Klinsmann
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I…
— Warren Cuccurullo
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Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
— Lance Armstrong
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