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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.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
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.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
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.
Quote by -Lewis Thomas
(On if his life was a success): Neither on my deathbed nor before will I ask myself such a question. Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Quote by -Bill Gates
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
Quote by -Bill Gates
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
Quote by -Bill Gates
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Quote by -Bill Gates
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Quote by -Bill Gates
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Quote by -Bill Gates
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Quote by -Bill Gates
To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
"To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Quote by -Aristotle
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
Quote by -Martin Luther King