Quote by Lewis Thomas
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictabl

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. – Lewis Thomas

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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You cant. Its against the law of nature. – Bryan Cranston

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Nature is commanded by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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