The Lives of a Cell

Notes of a Biology Watcher

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject, a man of wit and imagination who takes pleasure in and gives meaning to nearly everything he beholds.

Lewis Thomas was chairman of the Department of Pathology and Dean at Yale Medical School and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The Lives of a Cell won a National Book Award in 1974.

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Sublime

Magnificent. Straight from mind of an extraordinary human beings to your ears. I cannot imagine any other content that is more enriching and thought provoking.

Amazing

The little and big miracles of our world. I couldn’t stop reading it! This book was recommended to me by a friend. I will get all his other books.

Fantastic musings from a profound thinker

Well narrated and covers a wide range of topics From medicine to paleontology to sociology

Oldy but goody

Mildly dated but still pretty interesting and relevant. He really goes off on tangents in the last few chapter, especially on the micro minutia of language derivations, which don't have much to do with "lives of a cell". When he sticks to biology and philosophy of biology, much better.

I'm Smitten

This is a fantastic representation of the scope of science as it approaches the supernatural.

that asymptote trajectory, the brinkmanship, the audacity. *Chef's Kiss,*. I started this a week after I began listening to a great presentation of the Bhagavad Gita, but I don't think the author would be surprised.

His grasp of language and the evolutionary purpose of storytelling is mind-blowing. If you have a thirsty mind, drink. Listen to this book.

Great choice of narrator, but Grover Gardner always is!