We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are mor…

Lewis Thomas
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We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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