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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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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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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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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

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