"I will confess that I have no more……" — Lewis Thomas

"I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant."

— Lewis Thomas

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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas has 130 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea…
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

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This quote is filed under Ant Quotes, one of 149 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only… — Michio Kaku
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and… — Oren Lyons

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