Quote by Lewis Thomas
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our lo

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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Much of todays public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

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Nature
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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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I cant say its not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. – LaToya Jackson

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I know Im talented, but I wasnt put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but its not where it begins and ends. – Amy Winehouse

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Family

A lot of what Im obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. – Martin Scorsese

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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety. – Lady Gaga

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I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. – Dave Barry

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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me. – Pia Toscano

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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. – Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

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