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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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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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The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. – Lewis Thomas

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. – Lewis Thomas

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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. – Louis D. Brandeis

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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Mark Twain

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Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. – Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct

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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein

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Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. – Michael P. Anderson

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It seems to me that were in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society. – Alexander McCall Smith

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