The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
Lewis Thomas
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Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.
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We are perhaps uniquely among the earths 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.
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