Inspirational Quotes by Lewis Thomas

8 Inspirational quotes by Lewis Thomas

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Lewis Thomas’s essays often weave science with humanity. These eight concise reflections give a modest yet thoughtful lift for curious minds.

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Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

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Man is embedded in nature.

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We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the…

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It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

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It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

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For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

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Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

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Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

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If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

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I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst,…

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It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity,…

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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

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“Nature abhors a long silence.”

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“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most…

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We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature;…

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“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single…

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Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by…

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