"The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect."

-- Lewis Thomas

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“Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.”
“Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains â€“ beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.”
“Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.”
“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.379, Macmillan
“A letter makes ordinary things seem important.”
“Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.”

Source : Cynthia Ozick (2011). “Fame & Folly: Essays”, p.217, Vintage
“As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.”

Source : Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35
“The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.”

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