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"I won't 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 on Communication

More quotes about Communication

  • "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

    Mark Twain on Communication

  • "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

    Lao Tzu on Communication

  • "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

    George Bernard Shaw on Communication

  • "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

    Charles Dickens on Communication

  • "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."

    Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Lewis Thomas

  • "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."

  • "A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."

  • "Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."

  • "There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain."

  • "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."

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