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"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
"You think everything revolves around Zane Hollander, don't you?'No. But I think your blush does."
"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"
"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"
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"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."
"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."
"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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