Quote by Lewis Thomas
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. – Lewis Thomas

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I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. – Lewis Thomas

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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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Statistics
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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, its like were downgrading if you look at the investment in education… thats the thing that worries me. – will.i.am

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. – Paul Erdos

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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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