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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains

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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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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The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. – Lewis Thomas

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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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