The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion year…

Richard Dawkins
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The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. ✨ Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong (2005). The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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