"Chemical waste products are the droppings of science." — Lewis Thomas
"Chemical waste products are the droppings of science."
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Lewis Thomas
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
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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…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that…
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More Chemical Quotes
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one of 520 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And…
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
— Abdallah II
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions…
— Kris Carr
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
— Robert E. Lee
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of…
— Ray Lankester
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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must…
— Hugh Shelton
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses…
— Jonas Salk
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship…
— Jack Steinberger
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