I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on eart…

Lord Kelvin
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I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life. ✨ The Life of Lord Kelvin by Silvanus Phillips, Volume 2, (p. 866), 2005.
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