An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could…

Francis Crick
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An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. ✨ Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. Book by Francis Crick, 1981.
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