Lewis Thomas Quote

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.


The Medusa and the Snail (1979)


Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of...

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of...

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of...

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of...