Lewis Thomas Quote

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.


A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays (ed. 1990)


We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally...

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally...

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally...

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally...