Lacking Self Quotes by Lewis Thomas

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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,…
• ...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen…
• Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided…
• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
• I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
• Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
• 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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