"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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More From Lewis Thomas
- "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."
- "We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds."
- "If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."
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- "It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this."― Jenna Bush
- "I had a dad you know."― Darrell Hammond
- "My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain’t fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson."― Bubba Watson