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.
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Francis Crick
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Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
What Mad Pursuit
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.