Edward Boyden Quotes
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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You were born as the one you are.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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My parents brought me up to be comfortable in one's own body. And I have always been comfortable in my own skin.
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Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
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I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
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One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
