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Roger Lewin
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American anthropologist and writer who has authored 20 books. He began with nine years of experience as a staff writer for New Scientist, followed by nine years with Science, before becoming a free-lance writer in 1989. In 2000, he co-founded Harvest Associates for business consulting, and he is part of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.
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Science Quotes by Roger Lewin (3 quotes)
It’s much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.
— Roger Lewin
Interviewed in 'Simple, Yet Complex', CIO (15 Apr 1998), 64.
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
— Roger Lewin
In Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature (2000), 361.
Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. … Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
— Roger Lewin
In 'Observing the Brain Through a Cat's Eyes', Saturday Review World (1974), 2, 132.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
