It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right …

Lewis Thomas
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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else. ✨ 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

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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