Quote by Lewis Thomas
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

Other quotes by Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas

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War
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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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Truth
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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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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. – Fiona Apple

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Ive always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers – whether female singers or just like music from this country in general. – Ellie Goulding

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