Roger Lewin Quotes

• Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

  Roger Lewin

  Children, Mistake, Learning

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• The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

  Roger Lewin

  People, Risk, Chicago

  "Evolutionary theory under fire". science.sciencemag.org. November 21, 1980.

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• Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

  Roger Lewin

  Data, Fit, Conclusion

  Roger Lewin (1997). “Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

  Roger Lewin

  Success, Past, Figures

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• It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

  Roger Lewin

  Science, Effectiveness, People

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• Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

  Roger Lewin

  Nature, Science, Creating

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