Lewis Thomas Quotes

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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

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

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.'

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

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

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.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

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 …

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way 'round

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.