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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 wrong before.
- As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking…
- Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching,…
- It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
- There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see,…
- The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of…
- I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't…
- Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost…
- The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible…
- We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson