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Stills Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- 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…
- It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the…
- We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and…
- In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years -…
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most…
- We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to…
- As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the…
- Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is…
- The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be…
- I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
- As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still…
More Stills Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden