"We spend our time sending messages to each……" — Lewis Thomas
"We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives."
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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 Biological Quotes
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
— Michele Bachmann
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a…
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
— Fred Allen
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues…
— Kim Cattrall
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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