If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry. - "Lewis Thomas"

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
Lewis Thomas

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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
- Lewis Thomas