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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
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...