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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

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One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

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