Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.Lewis Thomas
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with theknack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrongalternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
Lewis Thomas
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
Lewis Thomas
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play themusic we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the uniquecapacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
Lewis Thomas
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