Quote by Lewis Thomas
Much of todays public anxiety about science is the apprehension th

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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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. – Lewis Thomas

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

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. – Mark Haddon

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It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and Im speaking the written science fiction, not Star Trek. Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if theyre clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. – Terry Pratchett

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. – Thomas Aquinas

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Even more importantly, its wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life. – Robert Mondavi

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. – Ovid

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