Cyril Ponnamperuma Quotes

• 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

  Science, Self, Groups

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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

  Life, Thinking, Energy

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