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Some Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance...
- Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen…
- I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost…
- We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it…
- Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
- On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,…
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- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach