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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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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm…
— Jack Handey
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Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time…
— Lewis Thomas
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The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of…
— Ross Garnaut
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I usually think in terms of music
— Shane West
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I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist.…
— Unknown Author
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we…
— Dan Ariely
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We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously…
— Peter Singer
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Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to…
— Theodora Goss
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Love isn’t just something we feel for others, it’s who we are. Though we usually think of love as a stream of…
— Marci Shimoff
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When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you…
— Bo Burnham
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