"There
is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having
been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into
one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according
to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless
forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being
evolved."
Last words
of Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859)
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"It
has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated
immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic
material."
J. D. Watson F. H. C. Crick, NATURE magazine, (2 April 1953)
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