"The most solid piece of scientific truth I……" — Lewis Thomas
"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
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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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More Ignorant Quotes
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
— Mary J. Blige
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