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."
想起一本讲生物的小书,有点科普性质的《细胞生命的礼赞》,作者是美国刘易斯•托玛斯博士,这是他作为一个医学家、生物学家关于生命、人生、社会乃至宇宙的思考。其中有一章讲到动物的死亡,令我感慨。 他写到“谁见过死鸟?那么多鸟当然有许多要死去,但谁见过那么多的死...
评分从微观的视角讲述宏观、宇宙的事。看的时候会特别惊叹于造物者的巧妙和精细,感觉我们的每一根头发、体内的每一个细胞其实都是活的,只是用我们不懂的语言在与我们交流。作者是生物学家,文笔有一种热爱自己专业之人的特有的幽默。就像很多音乐人觉得某段旋律、某个音节是可爱...
评分从支离破碎的翻译句子, 以及其费力的姿态, 还是可以感知到作者优美的文笔。 但作者的思想, 还不够彻底, 在我看了《自私的基因》和《迷米机器》之后, 尤其是后者, 作者对于语言有生命的描述, 若用迷米的概念来阐述, 会更加精确并有说服力。 此外推荐与此书相关的阅读...
评分还没怎么写过书评,这是第一次 或许我们大家都有一种叙述的欲望,一种被叙述的欲望,看着这些自己熟悉的学术用词,托马斯博士给我们构建了一个疑问,我们始终无法明白这一切,从悠扬的老歌和激烈的摇滚,从共振到光的性质,我们到底明白了什么? 有一篇是讲内共生体,也就是叶...
评分想当年,黑川纪章的“共生”思想流行。买了他的书读,没有读太懂,照猫画虎,设计课上,在房子边加了几棵树,牵强地解释自己的设计如何“天人合一”。 后来,读到老子的“天地不仁,以万物为刍狗”,听到木心先生说“天人合一,是人的一厢情愿”时,内心像被电击了似的,颤了好...
好吧,当初就是因为你这么美...never regret...!
评分看着the grand design就忽然想把这些老书都翻出来重读
评分盛名在外,也许是我自己的问题,并没有拿起就放不下的感觉:P
评分好吧,当初就是因为你这么美...never regret...!
评分好吧,当初就是因为你这么美...never regret...!
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