"Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Hilary Kornblith

#Believe Quotes #Animal Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.”
“After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.”
“To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.”

Source : "Orientation: A Scientology Information Film". Documentary, Short, www.imdb.com. 1996.
“I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.”
“My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?”
“If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.”

Source : Romeo LeBlanc's Installation Speech, February 8, 1995.
“My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.”
“The universe is random. It's not inevitable. It's simple chaos. It's subatomic particles in endless, aimless collision. That's what science teaches us, but what is this saying? What is it telling us, when on the very night that this man's daughter dies, it's me who's having a drink with him? How can that be random?”

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