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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."

Lewis Thomas on Truth

More quotes about Truth

  • "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

    Marcus Aurelius on Truth

  • "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

    Albert Einstein on Truth

  • "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

    Buddha on Truth

  • "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

  • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    Winston Churchill on Truth

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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

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