Lewis Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We…

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all…

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since…

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi…

I don’t want to be reincarnated, that’s for sure. When you’ve had rewarding experiences in…

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension…

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the…

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in…

I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how…

There’s really no such thing as the agony of dying. I’m quite sure that pain…

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the…