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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. – Martha Beck

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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Doesnt all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? – Ellen Glasgow

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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. – Martha Plimpton

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