The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any pre…

Lewis Thomas
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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ✨ The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.
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