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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! It is like…
- The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.…
- Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals…
- The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and…
- At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that…
- Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is…
- 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…
- We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the…
- We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since…
- As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster