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My hope is that the difference in the three generations' attitudes may signal a lessening of anti-Semitism in Austria.

— Eric Kandel In Search of Memory (2006)

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The life of a biological scientist in the United States is a life of discussion and debate—it is the Talmudic tradition writ large.

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As knowledge advances and scientific disciplines change, so do the disciplines impinging on them.

Each sensory system first analyzes and deconstructs, then restructures the raw, incoming information to its own built-in connections and rules—shades of Immanuel Kant.

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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

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Libet could predict what a person would do before the person was actually aware of having decided to do it.

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