"It is not so bad being ignorant if……" — Lewis Thomas
"It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance..."
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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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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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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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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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