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When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complicatio...more

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The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to con...more

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Segregation has no place in the education system.

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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifte...more

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[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume disc...more

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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic pas...more

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In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally ex...more

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential peopl...more