Lewis Thomas

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most…

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency…

We’re as clever as we think we are, but we’ll be a lot cleverer when…

Much of today’s public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be…

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks…

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about…

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our…

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly…

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has…

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself…

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together…

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all…

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes…

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through…

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood…