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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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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of…
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she…
— C.S. Lewis
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have…
— Naomi Wolf
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There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it and…
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