The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. —Lewis Thomas More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913 – December 3, 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.
More quotations from Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. —Lewis Thomas More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. —Lewis Thomas More about this quote Tags: language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s 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 More about this quote Tags: humanity life fear worrying discontent Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. —Lewis Thomas More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. —Lewis Thomas More about this quote Tags: language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s 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 More about this quote Tags: humanity life fear worrying discontent Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email