If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
Lewis ThomasSurvival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Lewis ThomasIn the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.
Lewis ThomasMedical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
Lewis Thomas