Ocupation: Physician
Life: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993
Birthday: November 25
Death: December 3
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.
source: Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
topic: Hard Work, Science, Brain, Central Nervous System