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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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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Grammar
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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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Family
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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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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. – Soren Kierkegaard

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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal. – V. S. Naipaul

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Truth

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. – William Blake

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. – Khalil Gibran

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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Appearance

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If youre in your 60s and youre with the kid every day, youre dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again. – Martin Scorsese

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