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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
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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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We...
Quotes About Nature
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It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about...
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I...
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Nature says women are human beings men have made religions to deny it....
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
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The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my...
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Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of...
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The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a...
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Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be...
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual...