"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

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“A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.”
“What thou seest, speak of with caution.”
“Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.”
“Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.”
“As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.”
“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.”
“And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.”
“There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.”

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