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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

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This quote is written / told by Lewis Thomas between November 25, 1913 and December 3, 1993. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA. The author also have 10 other quotes.

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