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Been Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
- Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals…
- Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the…
- The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,…
- Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is…
- We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes…
- The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
- It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour