Quote by Lewis Thomas
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas

Other quotes by Lewis Thomas

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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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. – Lewis Thomas

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Society
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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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Future
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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. – Tim Berners-Lee

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Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Future

I am only 33, Ive got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. Im looking forward to the future and Im proud about the past. – Ice Cube

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Future

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead. – Maurice Sendak

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Future

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