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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of essays (I think all of Lewis Thomas' books are) that were published in science and medical journals prior to being collected in book format.<br/><br/>The essays are each so well written, beautifully phrased and accessible.  Each begins by looking at life at the tiny cellula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/431796">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Profound scientific knowledge combined with poetic vision. <br/><br/>Check it:<br/><br/>&quot;Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68660235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever have a book give you a deeper appreciation for life by revealing your ignorance? And this type of revealing ignorance doesn't make you feel bad or inadequate. You just kinda feel the need to keep reading and learn more. It makes you never want to be ignorant again. Well, in my case it did.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48096617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across a truly lyrical biology book, a series of essays by Lewis Thomas entitled The Lives of a Cell.  Now this is a man who can write about biology in a way that delights. For example, this paragraph on pheromones:<br/><br/><br/>    &quot; 'At home, 4 p.m. today', says the female moth, and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35339878">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an odd little book, very slim and breezy to read, even though it drops some serious seven-syllable science words without so much as a nod towards defining them or even contextualizing them.  Like The Flight of the Iguana, it's really a collection of essays rather than a single narrative or t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30767216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just for the section on ants worth it.  Great short essays on &quot;humans as a social species.&quot;  Great  companion reading to Your Inner Fish as both look at the interconnection between species.  You realize more and more how species is such an arbitrary designation in some ways (important of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47397256">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed The Lives of a Cell -- but there was a little something of the &quot;now I can check THAT one off my list&quot; triumph about the reading. Some of the science that was new or theoretical when he wrote it has been cemented since then, so the freshness that might initially have been implicit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43475333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lewis Thomas' essays are so well-written that I learn biological trivia with relish. For instance, did you know that termites don't digest cellulose (i.e., wood)? It's another organism that lives inside the termite that does the digesting. And some species of ant was removed from its native territor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51799246">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in high school along with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317278.The_Medusa_and_the_Snail_More_Notes_of_a_Biology_Watcher" title="The Medusa and the Snail  More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas">Medusa and the Snail</a>. Amazing essays. Lewis Thomas made me love biology.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A normal man's insight into a highly convoluted world of science. He walks you through a biosphere of experiences with the ability to point out individual smells among thousands, leaving you sensually satisfied and scientifically literate. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is truly my favorite book in the whole world.  over the years, i've bought at least 6 copies and i still don't have one.  damn me for passing along the best book ever!  always a great present (for me!).  :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. It can be read cover to cover while the individual essays stand on their own. Thomas' insights are incredible, even all these years later.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I should read twice.  Thomas gives a mind numbing view of the evolution of life as well as words.  Fascinating.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for a course at Baylor University entitled: Thinking, Writing, and Research, taught by Dr. Tom Hanks.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[not ashamed to let my geek flag fly with this read. want to enjoy again in the near future!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The lives of a cell : notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas (1978)]]></body>
    
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