Quote by Lewis Thomas
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for

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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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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Science
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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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Science
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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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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic… power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. – Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969

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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. – Serj Tankian

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Society

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Society

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think thats potentially damaging to society. – Dean Koontz

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It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels. – Saint Augustine

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal

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The upward course of a nations history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. – Author Unknown

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