Educational Quotes and Sayings ~ Lewis Thomas, about Biology:

“I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.”

Lewis Thomas (1913 – 1993) – US physician, writer, biologist, educator and researcher. He wrote “The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher” (1974) and won a National Book Award and a Christopher Award for this book. He worked as Dean of Yale Medical School and the New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. His formative years as an independent medical researcher were at Tulane University School of Medicine.