Lewis Thomas Dna Quotations

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

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.