The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Quote by Lewis Thomas
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
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Lewis Thomas Quotes
- Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
- There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
- 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.
- Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
- If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
Best Quotes
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
- His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
- I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
- To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
- I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.