If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
