Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings … - Lewis Thomas

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We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Lewis Thomas

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

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

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