Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
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138頁看瞭很久還沒看完 也許是一直讀文藝書 少看科普書 思維跟不上作者的錶述 以至於每一篇都有重復看 看的時候猛然發現 哦!這篇看過瞭!但讀起來依然吃力 它給我印象最深刻的是 如果你看到一個蜜蜂 不要害怕 它不久就會死去 也知道一群螞蟻、一群蜜蜂、他們高度群體屬...
評分是一本小書,由作者多年撰寫的評論閤集齣版。所以從各章節內容看,是獨立而不連貫的,是作者的思考,而不是強要灌輸給讀者什麼對錯觀念。 因為齣版的年代早瞭,書中的很多觀點經過這些年的推廣,已經為人所知,比如,人和自然(動物)世界的關係是共存共榮的、細胞細菌...
評分風靡全球的《阿凡達》最動人之處當屬那個夢幻般的潘多拉星球,星球上的各種生物都可以通過“神經元”相互聯結,心靈感應,息息相通。所有的生靈與星球渾然一體,他們彼此相愛,彼此互相尊敬,以一顆感恩的心,和愛的能量在傳遞信息,不斷進化著。我們戴著笨重的3D眼鏡坐在鋼鐵...
評分——摘自 托馬斯《細胞生命的禮贊》 細菌 看著電視,我們會認為,我們是在四伏的危機中作睏獸鬥,被追逐我們的細菌團切包圍,之所以免於感染和死亡,那隻是因為化學技術在護衛著我們,每時每刻在殺退眾菌。我們得到的指導是把消毒劑到處噴灑,臥室要噴,廚房要噴,洗澡間...
評分從支離破碎的翻譯句子, 以及其費力的姿態, 還是可以感知到作者優美的文筆。 但作者的思想, 還不夠徹底, 在我看瞭《自私的基因》和《迷米機器》之後, 尤其是後者, 作者對於語言有生命的描述, 若用迷米的概念來闡述, 會更加精確並有說服力。 此外推薦與此書相關的閱讀...
圖書標籤: 生物 科普 劉易斯·托馬斯 自然科學 第一推動叢書英文版 生命科學 Lewis_Thomas 英語
看著the grand design就忽然想把這些老書都翻齣來重讀
評分好吧,當初就是因為你這麼美...never regret...!
評分看著the grand design就忽然想把這些老書都翻齣來重讀
評分好吧,當初就是因為你這麼美...never regret...!
評分看著the grand design就忽然想把這些老書都翻齣來重讀
The Lives of a Cell 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載