"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real……" — Lewis Thomas

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music."

— Lewis Thomas

130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas has 130 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea…
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part… — Roger Bannister
The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might… — Mike Mentzer
"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that… — Ed McCabe
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system… — Arthur Lydiard
Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise… — Jeanette Winterson
If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be… — Jacob Rothschild

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"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real……" — Lewis Thomas

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