Quote by Lewis Thomas
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are

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

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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas

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War
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Much of todays public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The words of truth are always paradoxical. – Lao Tzu

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn

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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. – Edgar R. Fiedler

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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. – Louis L’Amour

I think Im a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if its authority that I respect. – Tupac Shakur

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