Lewis Thomas Quotes About Evolution

• La capacidad de equivocarse ligeramente es la verdadera maravilla del ADN. Sin este atributo especial, seguiríamos siendo bacterias anaerobias y no habría música.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Science, Dna

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

• As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Learning, Science

• Los animales tienen genes para el altruismo, y esos genes han sido seleccionados en la evolución de muchas criaturas por la ventaja que confieren para la supervivencia continuada de la especie.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Animal, Survival

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

• 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

  Growing Up, Childhood, Luck

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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