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Lewis Thomas
Ants are so...
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch...
The act of...
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of...
We are a...
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for...
The cloning of...
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control,...
If you want...
If you want to use a clich? you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or...
It is from...
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the...
Music is the...
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is...
Statistically, the probability...
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would...
The capacity to...
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be...
It hurts the...
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives...
Sometimes you get...
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path...
Worrying is the...
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to...
The uniformity of...
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we...
The great secret...
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get...
We pass the...
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the...