We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990…

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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
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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern to … ▶
Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a … ▶
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting a … ▶
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected E … ▶

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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