"I am a member of a fragile species,……" — Lewis Thomas

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the… - Lewis Thomas

"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 evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that."

— Lewis Thomas

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