14 Quotations by Lewis Thomas
- 1. It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so ...
![It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, ...
![It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixe ...
![Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixe .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a ...
![Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere ...
![Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the ...
![The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha ...
![The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
![The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.. Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high prob ...
![The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high prob .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We h ...
![We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We h .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
![We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.. Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we m ...
![We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we m .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniq ...
![We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniq .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of h ...
![When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of h .... Lewis Thomas.](/img/view.gif)
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