Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature.
Lewis ThomasThe most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Lewis ThomasThe need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
Lewis ThomasThe great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas