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Way Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the…
- We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways…
- 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…
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we…
- My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in…
- We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.
- I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that…
- The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of…
- 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 do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial…
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