All Lewis Thomas Quotes
- When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity....… Acting
- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… All
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… Affair
- I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more… Becomes
- Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… Animal
- I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… All
- I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles… All
- It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the… Act
- The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… All
- It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… Alongside
- It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... Bad
- Chemical waste products are the droppings of science. Chemical
- Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. Astonishment
- The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… Arranged
- The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… Achievement
- ...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere… Algae
- We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude? Feel
- Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… Applied
- Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique… Beings
- We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… All
- The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. Achievement
- We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll… Build
- As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking… All
- Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen… All
- Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… All
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