Lewis Thomas Quotes

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.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceSchoolCollegeAttention

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Spike Jonze

ThinkSomeoneI CanTellAnything

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey

GoodPowerManPoliticalSenseWho

We have to have each other's back. That's just football. That's how it's been since we were younger. Before you learn technique and scheme when you're a little kid, you're out there scrapping.

Mike Daniels

FootballLearnYouBackKidOut

Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.

Juergen Teller

MotherStandDoingTryKnowingShe

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there.

Jason Woliner

FunnyIdeasBetterGoNewTry

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeChangeTimeWaterManWaiting

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Jonathan Demme

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Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

Don Lemon

SocietyPersonAfricaMoreMiddle

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

Alissa Quart

MoneyLivingLittleRabbitWriter

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Peter Jackson

LearningMoviesRealBreakthrough

A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts.

Sheila Heti

LoveLineUsMakeDrawnVulnerable

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