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

Lewis Thomas
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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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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ✨ Lewis Thomas … ▶
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning a … ▶
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most … ▶
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry … ▶

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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