"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music."

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

Lewis Thomas

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“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1959). “Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958”
“The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...”
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
“Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.”
“Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub
“I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.”

Source : "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve”

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