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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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We become what we habitually contemplate
— George Russell
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If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves,…
— Tony Robbins
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Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
— George Muller
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Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than…
— Lisa Hoffman
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Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble…
— Tad R. Callister
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We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European…
— Lewis Thomas
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The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there…
— Alain de Botton
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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to…
— Haruki Murakami
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