The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the re…

Lewis Thomas
101 citations
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1996). Fragile Species, p.7, Simon and Schuster
Death Thought
10

More Author Quotes

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ✨ Lewis Thomas … ▶
We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative … ▶
Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to reco … ▶
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes