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Lewis Thomas
(25 Nov 1913 - 3 Dec 1993)
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Lewis Thomas Quotes on Learning (5 quotes)
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As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.
— Lewis Thomas
I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.
— Lewis Thomas
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
— Lewis Thomas
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.
— Lewis Thomas
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.
— Lewis Thomas
See also:
- 25 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Thomas's birth.
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, by Lewis Thomas. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Lewis Thomas.