In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually

An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clinches Into Place.

Consciousness Is Somehow A By-product Of The Simultaneous, High Frequency Firing Of Neurons In Different Parts Of The Brain. It's The Meshing Of These Frequencies That Generates Consciousness, Just As Tones From Individual Instruments Produce The Rich, Complex, & Seamless Sounds Of A Symphony Orchestra

What Could Be More Foolish Than To Base One's Entire View Of Life On Ideas That, However Plausible At The Time, Now Appear To Be Quite Erroneous? And What Would Be More Important Than To Find Our True Place In The Universe By Removing One By One These Unfortunate Vestiges Of Earlier Beliefs?

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.