My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
ALAN ALDA
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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