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Thinking Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,…
- I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more…
- 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…
- Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- 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…
- I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
- Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all…
- A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths,…
- 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…
- We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since…
- We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to…
- It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams