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"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
"She didn't want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn't want to be the vanguard-of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."
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"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."
"From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game."
"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."
"Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?"
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
"The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation."
"When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part."
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