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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,…
• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
• I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
• Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
• I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
• I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
• It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
• The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
• It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
• It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
• Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

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