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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Cyril Ponnamperuma

Dr. Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma was a Sri Lankan scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.

October 16, 1923 - December 20, 1994
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. — © Cyril Ponnamperuma
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.
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.
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