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Results of search for Author: Lewis Thomas - Page 1 of 1
Showing results 1 to 6 of 6 total quotations found.

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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