Medical 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 Quotes
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
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| Birth: | 25th November, 1913 |
| Death: | 3rd December, 1993 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Administrator, Advisor, Educator, Essayist, Physician, Poet, Researcher |
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