Lewis Thomas Quotes

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FuturePastInterestingDangerous

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

Joe Eszterhas

AlwaysStarWanted

I have a lot of really good handlers.

Jessica Simpson

GoodLotReally

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Melody Carlson

TeenMomSisterChristianDifficult

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

Louis R. Chenevert

FlyProudPresidentSomethingGoing

I never had an issue with gender.

Judy Sheindlin

GenderNeverIssueHad

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

Jonathan Ive

ObstaclesDoingYouNewAnything

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

Dick Costolo

CommunicationSadTimeTrustTeam

Fools are without number.

Desiderius Erasmus

FoolsWithoutNumber

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson

PassionGreatRideBasketballPlay

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

Morris Gleitzman

MeProblemsMatterWriteAlwaysBig

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

Lil Wayne

AccomplishMoreOutAccomplishedSet

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Kenny G

GreatGolfMorePlayingJustThing

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