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

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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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Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Lon … ▶
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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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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