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I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

Lewis Thomas
Memories, Remember, Bad Memories
"The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher" by Lewis Thomas, (p. 1), 1983.

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Lewis Thomas
Memories, Thinking, Smell

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Lewis Thomas
Memories, Science, Simple
Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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