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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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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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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
— Ann Coulter
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I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
— Alan Ladd
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As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that…
— Timothy Pickering
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who…
— Unknown Author
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However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition…
— Frederick Reines
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I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make…
— St. Vincent
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I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
— Lee DeWyze
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Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
— Paul Simon
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That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about…
— Elia Kazan
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Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place…
— Lisa Unger
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