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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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas

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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the suns position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. – Lewis Thomas

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Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. – Shia LaBeouf

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It also allows you to look as though youre not particularly from the present, future or past, either. – Doug Coupland

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