Music The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the... Lewis Thomas 37
Death A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one... Lewis Thomas 34
Future Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is... Lewis Thomas 36
Communication I won't 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... Lewis Thomas 30
cool Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. Lewis Thomas 35
