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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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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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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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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck…
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star…
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been…
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them…
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You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply…
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge…
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.
— Unknown Author
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God…
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