Quote by Lewis Thomas
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from s

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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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. – 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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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan J. Perlis

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Learn a new language and get a new soul. – Czech Proverb

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Words want to be free! – Anonymous

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