An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us… - 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.

Francis Crick

Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature · 1981 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.

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Native Name: Francis Harry Compton Crick

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