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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 no music. – Lewis Thomas

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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 human mind. – Lewis Thomas

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Music
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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle. – Jim Sensenbrenner

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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. – Charles Babbage

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. – E. B. White

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. – Thomas Huxley

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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. – Og Mandino

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect. – Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. – Harold Kushner

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