Quote by Lewis Thomas
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have b

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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I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas

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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de la Bruyere

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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. – Ron Reagan

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Future

Were trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. Its going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of 8 Mile. – Justin Bieber

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Future

I dont know where Im going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else… for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. – Audrey Tautou

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Future

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On The Office, so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. – Mindy Kaling

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. – Charles Evans Hughes

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I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board. – Sophia Bush

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce