 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 pages
...article that by Falconer on Lyell ; f I am very sorry for it ; I think Falconer on his side does not if !) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin - 1891 - 602 pages
...their originals, they still remain Foraminifera." \ On the same subject my father wrote in 1871 : " It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation,* by which I really meant "... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 920 pages
...their originals, they still remain Foraminifera.” + On the same subject my father wrote in 1871: “It is often said that all the conditions for the...ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation,* by which I really meant “appeared”... | |
 | Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell - Mars (Planet) - 1984 - 568 pages
...common source. In an 1871 letter, Darwin suggested that perhaps Earth's atmosphere, too, had evolved. It is often said that all the conditions for the first...have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we would conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat,... | |
 | H. Hartman - Life - 1985 - 152 pages
...ripe for answers. It takes a mature discipline of geology, for example, to ask where mountains come "But if (and oh, what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present that a protein compound was chemically... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Science - 1964 - 128 pages
...necessary for the origin of life, Charles Barwin was a pioneer. In a letter to a friend, he wrote : "If we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present that a proteine compound was... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Science - 1964 - 130 pages
...necessary for the origin of life, Charles Darwin was a pioneer. In a letter to a friend, he wrote: "If we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present that a proteine compound was... | |
 | Samuel Glasstone - Mars (Planet). - 1968 - 336 pages
...matter in the past, it should still be doing so today, Darwin wrote as follows: It is often stated that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present which ever could have been present. But if ... we could conceive in some warm little pond,... | |
 | Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell - Mars (Planet) - 1984 - 568 pages
...common source. Inan 1871 letter, Darwin suggested that perhaps Earth's atmosphere, too, had evolved. It is often said that all the conditions for the first...have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we would conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat,... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...origin of matter." But then, of course, being the inveterate speculator that he was, he mused in 1871: "It is often said that all the conditions for the...conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc. present, that a proteine compound was... | |
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It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh ! what a big if !) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of 
