Quote by Lewis Thomas
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persi

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

Other quotes by Lewis Thomas

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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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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Future
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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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Other Quotes from
cool
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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cool

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight. – Tila Tequila

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cool

Ive never won an award for anything, and I think its weird. I mean, thats really cool but its strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange. – Bobby Cannavale

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cool

Im doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving. – Lady Gaga

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cool

Random Quotes

But because weve all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. – Wallace Shawn

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Experience

I have a neuroscience background – thats what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. – Mayim Bialik

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parenting

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because youre helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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amazing

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Job 14:17 – Bible

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Forgiveness