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Winner of a National Book Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
"( The Medusa and the Snail) remains among the finest, most insightful writing I have ever savored." — Maria Popova
"Thomas' unexpected turns of phrase and love of words and their origins is revealed again and again...Read Thomas for his estimable style—often disarmingly simple, even colloquial—and the wit and insight into life and medicine his writing embodies." — Kirkus Reviews
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Varying in length and topic, these essays address death, cloning, symbiotic relationships in nature, as well as a wide range of other subjects.”
People
This research biologist always has something fresh to contribute.”
Christian Science Monitor
[Thomas] manages to be poet, scientist, social critic, and everyman, while writing with prose so clear it’s like looking through a jellyfish.”
Edward O. Wilson
If Montaigne had possessed a deep knowledge of twentieth-century biology, he would have been Lewis Thomas.”
