Lewis Thomas Quotes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

Topics

MistakesErrorMakeBuilt

I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

Jim O'Heir

KindGuyBeenHappy-Go-LuckyMostly

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

John Lahr

TimeComedyAudienceInspiredTake

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

John Steinbeck

GoodMeWeatherHellOutLived

I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.

Stefon Diggs

MyselfBetterYouOpponentStudy

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

Shimon Peres

PeaceWarGoNo SenseSense

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

Michel Gondry

TimePeopleSongWrongNeverAwards

Youth re-energises.

Louise Wilson

Youth

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Livy

HumbleGreatnessRomeOverwhelmed

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Janine Benyus

WaterTryingJumpClean WaterClean

When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.

Janet Yellen

TimeThinkFlowWillThroughRaise

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

Don Novello

TimeThinkDoingMcDonaldKnowDone

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Branch Rickey

BaseballTeamGameRulesSpirit

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