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“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”

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“We are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well. We are…

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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

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“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize…

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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 enchanted by…

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If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

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Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

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I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst,…

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It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity,…

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The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we…

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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

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“Nature abhors a long silence.”

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“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most…

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so…

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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live…

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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

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God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable…

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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

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A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines…

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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