"Man is embedded in nature." — Lewis Thomas
"Man is embedded in nature."
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Lewis Thomas
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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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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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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of…
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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and…
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I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that…
— Christopher Alexander
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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition…
— Dick Cheney
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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that…
— Chuck Close
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We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs,…
— Kofi Annan
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By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will…
— Ray Kurzweil
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
— Betty Smith
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
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The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with…
— Charles Darwin
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Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our…
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