The uniformity of the earth's life, more.... : Quote by Lewis Thomas

“ The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance. ”

Lewis Thomas
  • From : The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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