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Lewis Thomas: Music is the...

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Source: The Medusa and the Snail, On Thinking about Thinking (1979).
-- Lewis Thomas, (Nov 25 1913-1993), English biologist, essayist; He translated the intricate mysteries of the Earth's biology into a series of finely crafted, award-winning essays.


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