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"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."
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"To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first."
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"I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters."
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"I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example."
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"It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example."
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
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"If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place."
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"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."
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"A good example is far better than a good precept."
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"Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation."
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"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
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"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
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"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language."
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"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
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"No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry."
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"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
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"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."
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"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
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"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."
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