"If we are to be destroyed we will……" — Lewis Thomas
"If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry."
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas has 130 quotes on this site.
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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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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
— Isaac Asimov
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
— Ben Bernanke
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are…
— William Blake
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so…
— James Cameron
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so…
— Eric Cantona
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next…
— Al Capp
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the…
— Benjamin Carson
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
— Hugo Chavez
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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