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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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