"The question of the origin of life is……" — John Desmond Bernal

"The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed."

— John Desmond Bernal

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