“It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.”

—  Lewis Thomas

"Scabies, Scrapie", p. 236
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher (1983)

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American physician, poet and educator 1913–1993

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