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I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of

I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. – Lewis Thomas

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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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Nature
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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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Truth
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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. – Patti Smith

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There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen. – Christopher Morley

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I mean, what is music anyway? Its a form of communication – at least for me it is. And thats why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people. – Kenny G

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Youre talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. – Erik Qualman

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