« All Seem Quotes · Lewis Thomas's Page
Seem Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles…
- As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking…
- Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music…
- Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and…
- Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would…
- It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled…
More Seem Quotes
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. — Andrea Arnold
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- Be content to seem what you really are. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker