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Primo Levi: The aims of...

Primo Levi: The aims of...

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Source: The Drowned and the...

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John Burroughs: Travel and society...

John Burroughs: Travel and society...

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a...

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John Burroughs: Temperament lies behind...

John Burroughs: Temperament lies behind...

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the...

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Alfred Korzybski: God may forgive...

Alfred Korzybski: God may forgive...

God may forgive you your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Source: Attributed;...

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Peter Medawar: Among scientists are...

Peter Medawar: Among scientists are...

Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many...

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Henri Poincare: Thus, be it...

Henri Poincare: Thus, be it...

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means...

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Peter Medawar: The human mind...

Peter Medawar: The human mind...

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

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Peter Medawar: I cannot give...

Peter Medawar: I cannot give...

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is...

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Francis Galton: Life is a...

Francis Galton: Life is a...

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves...

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Desmond Morris: This unusual and...

Desmond Morris: This unusual and...

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal...

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James Jeans: From the intrinsic...

James Jeans: From the intrinsic...

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure...

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Desmond Morris: Clearly, then, the...

Desmond Morris: Clearly, then, the...

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Source: The...

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Desmond Morris: We are, to...

Desmond Morris: We are, to...

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end...

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Beryl Markham: I could never...

Beryl Markham: I could never...

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your...

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Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are...

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Eric Temple Bell: Guided only by...

Eric Temple Bell: Guided only by...

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the...

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Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look...

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Alfred North Whitehead: Common sense is...

Alfred North Whitehead: Common sense is...

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Alfred North Whitehead: It requires a...

Alfred North Whitehead: It requires a...

It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.

Source: Science...

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Blaise Pascal: Things are always...

Blaise Pascal: Things are always...

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Source: Lettres...

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