Lewis Thomas Quotes

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.