Brian Christian Quotes
Stanford ecologist Deborah Gordon and computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar discovered that ants appear to have developed flow control algorithms millions of years before humans did.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
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I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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I understand Simeone as a coach. His style and his passion for success are clear, and that inspires me too.
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Stanford ecologist Deborah Gordon and computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar discovered that ants appear to have developed flow control algorithms millions of years before humans did.
