I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade school through college be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals the so-called basics aside for a while and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.
Quotes By Lewis Thomas
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi...
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
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We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
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The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
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Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from...
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We...
Quotes About Science
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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are...
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We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics...
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The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined...
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the...
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized...
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason...
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I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always...
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If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat there is no consensus of...