“I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.”

—  Lewis Thomas

"On Cloning a Human Being", p. 53
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)

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American physician, poet and educator 1913–1993

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