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Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.


Seth Lloyd


#being #certainly #civilization #course #history

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.


Katherine Mansfield


#learned #meaning #meaning of #once #read

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.


Gary Numan


#causing #child #grammar #grammar school #happiest

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.


Paul Nurse


#any #approach #biological #biologist #birmingham

I am a sociologist, God help me.


John O'Neill


#god #god help #help #i #i am

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.


Gary Oldman


#another #apart #character #give #happen

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.


William S. Paley


#disappointments #engage #follies #history #power

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.


Steven Pinker


#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.


James K. Polk


#action #almost #although #chief #chosen

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.


Kelly Preston


#being #every #helped #i #i love