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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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You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge…
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to…
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Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.…
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The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
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Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater…
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled…
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The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.
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