“You can never prove how life originated but what we can now wonder is, ‘Is ther

“You can never prove how life originated but what we can now wonder is, ‘Is there a plausible way that life arose from nonliving inorganic chemistry?’ And it’s starting to look like you can connect the dots between the periodic table, the atoms available to us in the universe, and life as an emergent property of matter,” —Harry Noller, 77, Molecular biology professor, University of California at Santa Cruz,