"Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.“

-Lewis Thomas

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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."

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"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television."

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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."

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"I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."

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"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."

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"We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors."

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"I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself."

-Tony Kanal

"Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing."

-Austin Butler

"I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!"

-Rutina Wesley

"I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool."

-Kodi Smit-McPhee

"Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid."

-Jim Sturgess

"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."

-John Dobbin