Quote by Lewis Thomas
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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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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas

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great
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. – Marston Bates

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Theres a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. – Fred Saberhagen

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. – J. G. Ballard

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So I decided on science when I was in college. – Sally Ride

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Im already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring. – Shailene Woodley

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Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. – Gottfried Reinhardt

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All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. – James M. Baldwin

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