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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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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these…
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When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is…
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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the…
— Robert Bloch
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the…
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My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You…
— Unknown Author
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure…
— Abdoulaye Wade
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…
— Lewis Thomas
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able…
— Peter Gay
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Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What…
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