Quote by Lewis Thomas
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, cro

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas

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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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Future
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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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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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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early 90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didnt want to, because they had no pilots. – Robert M. Gates

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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and thats why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. – Jim Ramstad

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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. – Charles Kettering

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. – Herbert Read

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