Quotes by Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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Not all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. In some species, the members are so tied to each o — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Working on a typewriter by touch, like riding a bicycle or strolling on a path, is best done by not giving it a glancing — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguit — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
It is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher