Famous Quotes

"Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."

Lewis Thomas on Cool

More quotes about Cool

• "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

  Thomas Jefferson on Cool

• "Rather be dead than cool."

  Kurt Cobain on Cool

• "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

  Angelina Jolie on Cool

• "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

  Walt Whitman on Cool

• "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."

  Bill Gates on Cool

More quotes by Lewis Thomas

• "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."

• "A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."

• "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."

• "There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain."

• "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."