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So we think that if you're going to have a robot in your home, that robot ought to be a manifestation of your own imagination.
The problem was that an influential group at Oxford began arguing that because it worked so well in economics, this deductive method ought to be applied to the natural sciences too.
[Science for the public good] Previously, it was believed that scientific knowledge ought to be used for the good of the king or queen, or for one's own personal gain.
And maybe at this point, when you know what I do, or maybe what I've failed to do, you'll think that I probably ought to be fired, and I could certainly understand that.
But I am looking to create a world where we can care about each other more effectively, we can know more about when someone is feeling something that we ought to pay attention to.
He said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to understand, as opposed to being understood.
People said, you know, you really ought to have this in Indian languages.
They ought to be rewarded for helping their customers save it.
As our Aboriginal mate said, "You white fellows ought to get out more." (Laughter) And the doctor of flies very quickly determined that there was one fly that carried the bug.
What if being obese is just a metabolic response to something much more threatening, an underlying epidemic, the one we ought to be worried about?
And I thought, "Anything that works for a 15-year-old boy ought to work for me."
I said that behaviorism ought to be one of the great embarrassments of our intellectual culture, because it's refuted the moment you think about it.
But we have another more important reality that we ought to think about.
And basically, he's just taken an eye and the space station will be one giant eye, so when you're in space, you ought to be able to see this massive eye looking up at you.
Or are they fake sentences that we think we ought to be saying?
And the fellow said, "Well, if it's large enough, there ought to be camels there."
And in a democracy, we ought to be able to do better.
So much of the other things that we ought to do, like slowing emissions, are intrinsically slow, because it takes time to build all the hardware we need to reduce emissions.
Let's say that we don't do geo-engineering, we do what we ought to do, which is get serious about cutting emissions.
It's so perplexing, trying to use arguments about evolutionary history to turn that into what we ought to do today.
I always accepted the idea that the most respected and powerful people in our society are men at the top of their careers, so that the measure of male-female equality ought to be how many women are in those positions: prime ministers, presidents, CEOs, directors, managers, Nobel laureates, leaders.
For a punishment to achieve its objective, it is only necessary that the harm that it inflicts outweighs the benefit that derives from the crime, and into this calculation ought to be factored the certainty of punishment and the loss of the good that the commission of the crime will produce.
RNG: No doubt, but modern anti-war movements reach back to a long chain of thinkers who had argued as to why we ought to mobilize our emotions against war, such as the father of modernity, Erasmus.
The only part that survives is the little bullet that we're riding in, and it falls into the atmosphere, and in essence you are riding a meteorite home, and riding meteorites is scary, and it ought to be.
"This is the way it ought to be."
So what I want to do in the rest of this talk is tell you about what pheromones really are, tell you why I think we would expect humans to have pheromones, tell you about some of the confusions in pheromones, and then finally, I want to end with a promising avenue which shows us the way we ought to be going.
Well, we really ought to talk about armpits, and I have to say that I do have particularly good ones.
Well, the ones that we've told compelling stories about, the ones we've decided ought to stick around.
We shouldn't assume that the world of is, of lengths and weights, has the same structure as the world of ought, of what we should do.
Scientists said, well okay, Nicolaus, if that's true we ought to be able to detect the motion of the Earth around the sun.
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