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Quotes from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher — Lewis Thomas

1913–1993 United States

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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

It is nice to think that there are so many unsolved puzzles ahead for biology, although I wonder whether we will ever find enough graduate students.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

Attribution

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