Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
anxiety apprehension endless
Lewis Thomas
These are some quotes by American author Lewis Thomas Scientist, who lived between November 25, 1913 and December 3, 1993.
Quotes by Lewis Thomas
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
