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Lewis Thomas has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point…
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For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in…
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping…
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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…
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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains…
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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting…
— D. H. Lawrence
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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
— Robert Jordan
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I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension…
— Louis Pierre Mouillard
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