Lewis Thomas Quotes

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

Topics

WarChildFarmInformationCapture

Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America.

Joe Russo

FutureAmericaFilmmakingDisney

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

ChildrenChildMeBrainyNeverMine

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

Robert Kirkman

TimeTeamShineWantMoreExploring

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

Tracy Chevalier

MomentMeIdeasBookComeNormally

What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes.

Rosamund Pike

GirlGreatGoneConversationsAbout

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love him; he's a kick.

Michele Bachmann

LoveHimAnythingKickAgainstHe

Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up.

Joshua Ostrander

DanceMeLookSaidShut UpUp

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

Jonathan Miller

YouSeeBeenShouldNeurologist

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Chesley Sullenberger

WifeSomeoneRiskHeroismSheSee

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Austin Ligon

GrowthActionSparkKnowPresident

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Autre Ne Veut

AnxietyRealExistentialSocialJust

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Osler

MedicinePhysicianFirstTakeMasses

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