“If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.”

—  Lewis Thomas , book The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)

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