Lewis Thomas Quotes

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

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.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.