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.
— Francis Crick Modern

Co-discoverer of DNA structure

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Context

Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature

Date / Period

1981

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://archive.org/details/lifeitselfitsori00cric

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Unverifiable

Explanation

Found in 1 providers: grok

Method

Cross Reference

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