| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 5387 |
| AUTHOR: | Lewis Thomas |
| QUOTATION: | Mistakes are at the very base of human thought … feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Medusa and the Snail Viking 79 |
| SUBJECTS: | Humankind: Wisdom, Philosophy & Other Musings |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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