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Quote by John Donne

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

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John Donne was a renowned 17th-century English poet, known for his profound religious and philosophical reflections. His poetry style was unique, blending the elegance of the Renaissance with the passion of the Reformation. more

“My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.”

Way Moments Running Pleasure Taken Complexes Dry Proportion Sheer Calculations Colony Typewriters Sustenance Neurons Bacteria Nucleus Complex Systems Mitochondria

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.”

Left

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.”

Alive Thanks

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

Love Soul Romance Kissing Romantic Letters My Friendship Mingling Letter Writing Absent Friends Stolen Kisses Handwritten Letters

Author:John Donne

“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.”

Ifs Use Technology Century Sooner Or Later New Technology

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“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.”

People Looks Different Might Today Agree Cells Odds Twins Identical Parental Donors Identical Twin

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“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.”

Lasts Belief Childhood Female Species Males Personal Experiences

Author:Lewis Thomas

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