Lewis Thomas

Person · Open Library

Works

30

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

NO

Active from

1980-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

16

Total plays

37

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 249,209x

2. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

   · 2001 · cited 163,087x

3. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,559x

4. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

   · 2015 · cited 59,676x

5. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 50,977x

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Quotes

• “It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.”
• “I must mend the ways of my mind. This is a very big place, and I do not know how it works. I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of our fossils, radioactive at that.”
• “The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.”
• “It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.”
• “Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.”
• “It is nice to think that there are so many unsolved puzzles ahead for biology, although I wonder whether we will ever find enough graduate students.”

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Wikidata facts

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