Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.