"If you want to use a cliche you……" — Lewis Thomas
"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."
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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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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
— John Aubrey
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
— Heinrich Himmler
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling…
— Virginia Woolf
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments…
— William James
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and…
— John Milton
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's…
— John Milton
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
— William Wordsworth
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
— John Aubrey
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
— Paula Poundstone
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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