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Resemblance Is

10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas Physician, Author

"It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance."

Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

"While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be."

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