Author: Lewis Thomas

Quotes

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

- Lewis Thomas

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

- Lewis Thomas

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

- Lewis Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

- Lewis Thomas

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