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I feel there's a power in theatre but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.
Quotes By Lewis Thomas
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi...
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
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We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
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The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
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I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade...
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Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from...
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
Quotes About Intelligence
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I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
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In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
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I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.