Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
persistence self numbers
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.
cat scientist rebuke
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
sarcastic sarcasm ants
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.
mind goes-on ants
I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.
nature men embedded
Man is embedded in nature.
independent self islands
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
mind brain fusion
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.
mistake errors making-mistakes
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
warfare weaponry ifs
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
language affection splendid
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
mistake stupidity inquiry
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
ignorant pieces scientific-truth
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
hands matter language
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
mind gone glimpse
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.