#time

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

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. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#before #clothes #deal #eyed #good

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#had #i #look #much #proof

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#film #grand #important time #life #most

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time. ↗

— Fran Tarkenton

#anything #business #football #game #me

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#child #children #know #lie #like

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long