Origin of Life (Pt2) (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 03:37 (5442 days ago) @ David Turell


> >I omitted how much time I think it would take. 
> I'd say we'd be able to start getting meaningful results in chemistry in 30yrs. (Maybe earlier, if we learn better ways to manipulate quantum chips.)
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> > In short, we're on the verge of a scientific revolution in information processing, and it's going to be even bigger than digital computing. It's Ray Kurzweil's singularity. 
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> I can't wait that long. I'll use my authors and methods for now. )-In jest:-"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
 --Soren Kierkegaard-"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. "
John Updike -"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." 
~Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883-"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929-And one of my favorites:-"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation." ~Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965

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