Cyril Ponnamperuma quotes
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“Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.”
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“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
-- Cyril Ponnamperuma
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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