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I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of

I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. – Lewis Thomas

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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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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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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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I understand why people went nuts for The Artist. We use words so much, its nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone – or something – is thinking or feeling. – Andy Serkis

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Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. – Scott McCloud

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You know, my dad wasnt a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other. – Bruce Weber

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