"Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker……" — Lewis Thomas
"Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends."
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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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More Friends Quotes
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one of 13,586 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
— J. J. Abrams
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