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Lewis Thomas Quotes

1913–1993 United States

Lewis Thomas (25 November 1913 - 3 December 1993) was a physician, author, administrator, educator, policy advisor and researcher. He served as a Dean of Yale Medical School, Dean of the New York University School of Medicine and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute.

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Also known as: Thomas, Lewis

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I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lewis Thomas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.