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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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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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