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Music Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is…
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we…
- Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music…
- Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a…
- 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…
- Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
- The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,…
- The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be…
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