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Lewis Thomas has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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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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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring…
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Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it,…
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging,…
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks…
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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path…
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And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heartâknowing a precious moment…
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The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire…
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Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
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When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead…
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your…
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I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.
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