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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
I won't compare ants and people but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling in effect one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
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 Communication
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In 1984 I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of...
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Art must unquestionably have a social value that is as a potential means of...
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It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical...
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Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no...
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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America it...
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To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its...
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Communication is very important. And the arts do that whether it's film or...
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Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't...
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The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to...
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Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves...