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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.
 
We are all old children.
 
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
 
The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to it.
 
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
 
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
 
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
 
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
 
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
 
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
 
Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.
 
The new comes out of the random.
 
Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
 
I'm looking at Sue. Sue's looking at Tom. Tom's looking at Kathy.
 
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
 
A court common to all is swept by no one.
 
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
 
I used to want to be an old man when I was a kid. Now I'm an old man and my kids are growing, I think I want to be a kid.
 
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
 
I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.
 
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