Lewis Thomas Quote

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.


The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Information (p. 95), The Viking Press. 1974


The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.