Quotes by : Lewis Thomas

Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication.....

It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to....

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance....

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston....

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community....

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most....

It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it....

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact....

The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not....

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives,....