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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
"And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness."
"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
"Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve."
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"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."
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