"It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years."

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Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

Patricia Churchland

#Years Quotes #Brain Quotes #Planets Quotes

“The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.”
“When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”
“If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.”
“When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies', we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.”

Source : "Say a New Year prayer for the destruction of our enemies in Iran, Shas spiritual leader urges" by Asher Zeiger and Greg Tepper, www.timesofisrael.com. August 26, 2012.
“A new heart for a New Year, always!”
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
“The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.”
“If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.”

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