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Moments Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see,…
- I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
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