Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the …

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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun ✨ The Lives of a Cell The World's Biggest Membrane (1974)
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1984). Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Sym … ▶
I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concent … ▶
Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
We do not understand much of anything, from... the big bang , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centur … ▶
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

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