Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains wor…

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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. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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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. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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