Built Quote by Lewis Thomas Download Open image “We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.” — Lewis Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Failure
“Error, failure, and being wrong are central to our development. We just aren’t using them as much as we should…yet.” — Alastair Arnott Copy Share Image
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“A mistake is an experience, choice or concept it is necessary for us to have or make in order to evolve beyond it. Errors… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Its easy to see and correct the errors of others but we cant see and correct our own errors. — Me Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs. — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
“We are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well. We are… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
