Lewis Thomas Quotes

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

There's no map to human behaviour.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

I love observing people.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

We are a very, very unusual species.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.