"Mistakes are at the very base of human……" — Lewis Thomas
"Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done."
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas has 130 quotes on this site.
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
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Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts…
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were…
— Lewis Thomas
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Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
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Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
— Henry Ford
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards…
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Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
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