Quote by Lewis Thomas
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines far

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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I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. – Lewis Thomas

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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Grammar is the grave of letters. – Elbert Hubbard

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[S]ometimes… quotation marks are an absolute crime against humanity. – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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Grammar makes the difference between feeling you’re nuts and feeling your nuts. – Internet meme

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. – William O. Douglas

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