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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry a

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – 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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Science
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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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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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