Lewis Thomas Quote

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.


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


I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain ...

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain ...

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain ...

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain ...