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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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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

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Nature
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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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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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The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Johnson

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Always tell the truth – its the easiest thing to remember. – David Mamet

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. – Vivien Leigh

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. – Henry David Thoreau

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