We do not understand much of anything, from... the big bang , all the …

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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 centuries ahead.
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As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time … ▶
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, … ▶
Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get sur … ▶

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 centuries ahead.

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