Lewis Thomas Quote

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.


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


The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from...

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from...

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from...

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from...