Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas: Ants are so...

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...

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Lewis Thomas: The act of...

Lewis Thomas: The act of...

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of...

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Lewis Thomas: We are a...

Lewis Thomas: We are a...

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for...

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Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control,...

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Lewis Thomas: If you want...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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Lewis Thomas: It is from...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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Lewis Thomas: Music is the...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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Lewis Thomas: Statistically, the probability...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be...

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Lewis Thomas: It hurts the...

Lewis Thomas: It hurts the...

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives...

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Lewis Thomas: Sometimes you get...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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Lewis Thomas: Worrying is the...

Lewis Thomas: Worrying is the...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to...

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Lewis Thomas: The uniformity of...

Lewis Thomas: The uniformity of...

The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we...

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Lewis Thomas: The great secret...

Lewis Thomas: The great secret...

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get...

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Lewis Thomas: We pass the...

Lewis Thomas: 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...

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