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Comprehend Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- 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…
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we…
- The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word…
- Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
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