Lewis Thomas Quotes
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
Show MoreHowever, I have a stronger hunch that the greatest part of the important biomedical research waiting...
Show MoreSurvival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the g...
Show MoreThe dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al...
Show MoreIt is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...
Show MoreMedical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in ...
Show MoreAs evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch brea...
Show MoreIt is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage t...
Show MoreMost things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that mo...
Show MoreThe cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...
Show MoreAnts are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as lives...
Show MoreThe greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human igno...
Show MoreWorrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this ...
Show MoreThe greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, her...
Show MoreCats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical con...
Show MoreAnimals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...
Show MoreIt is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, bla...
Show MoreThe future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We ...
Show MoreWe're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one br...
Show MoreWe are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, ...
Show MoreI won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...
Show MoreStatistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our exi...
Show MoreStatistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fac...
Show MoreIt is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it...
Show MorePerhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for com...
Show MoreIt is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct mach...
Show MoreThe uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...
Show MoreThe capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would...
Show MoreNot all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. In some species, the members a...
Show MoreWorking on a typewriter by touch, like riding a bicycle or strolling on a path, is best done by not ...
Show MoreThe individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may n...
Show MoreWorrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this,...
Show MoreAll of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboratio...
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