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Science in Quotes: Music and the Mind


Epoch Times Staff
Created: January 30, 2012 Last Updated: February 8, 2012
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

—Lewis Thomas, in his book “The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher.”

Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) was a physician.

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