"We owe our lives to the sun... How……" — Lewis Thomas
"We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?"
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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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