The Lives of a Cell

About this book

Elegant suggestive and clarifying Lewis Thomass profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships this provocative book explores in personal poetic essays to topics such as computers germs language music death insects and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes "Once you have become permanently startled as I am by the realization that we are a social species you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is by and large good for us."