Talk:Lewis Thomas

message: Anyone have any pictures of him?
yes i do  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.133.192 (talk) 16:32, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for Images

message: This claim crept into the Wikipedia entry on Sept. 23, 2005 (I think).  I don't think it is accurate but I don't know for sure.  (I'm suspicious in part because the diction of this added sentence suggests the writer is not particularly careful about knowledge.)
FanofWiki 05:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are we sure that  LT did not graduate from high school? 

message: Please review this entry and suggest any needed changes.  Thanks.  I'm new to this. --Laurel 17:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added "Observations on Human Evolution" 

message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Template:Infobox Scientist should be added 
*Photograph should be added from a source with a free license, if available
*Dates for his positions held required
*Further division into subheadings would be beneficial
*Information on writings should be expanded and references required
*References should be added, preferably in the inline format  
*External links to useful online resources should be added if available
Espresso Addict 02:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review comments

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In 1974, Thomas wrote in The Lives of a Cell that the function of humans is communication.
	 
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 "We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion."
	 
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Thirty-some years later, with the developments in communication such as the Internet and all its derivatives (newsgroups, email, websites), the import of these words takes on a whole new meaning.
	 
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"Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of us. Maybe the thoughts we generate today and flick around from mind to mind...are the primitive precursors of more complicated, polymerized structures that will come later, analogous to the prokaryotic cells that drifted through shallow pools in the early days of biological evolution. Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought. 
	 
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The mechanism is there [n.b.: in the human brain], and there is no doubt that it is already capable of functioning...
	 
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We are simultaneously participants and bystanders, which is a puzzling role to play. As participants, we have no choice in the matter; this is what we do as a species."
:See WP:QUOTEFARM - what secondary sources have referred to those quotations in the context used? Per WP:OR we need a source. Vsmith (talk) 13:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: On Probability and Possibility

message: *Lewis Thomas, Whose Essays Clarified the Mysteries of Biology, Is Dead at 80 By MARILYN BERGER Published: December 04, 1993. Accessed:6:37 PM 11/9/2013
*Lewis Thomas, 80; Spent Life Studying, Fighting Cancer Published:Saturday, December 4, 1993. Accessed: 6:44 PM 11/9/2013
—Pawyilee (talk) 11:48, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obituaries 

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message: Was he an intern at the Boston City Hospital as an intern during the pre-penicilin year? User:ScotXWt@lk 20:37, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the New York Times's obituary (see above) says he was in 1937, which would have to be pre-antibiotic. NRPanikker (talk) 09:04, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  boston city hospital