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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

James Jeans

1930

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Nature of life Biology Life

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1930

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James Jeans

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Jeans, James. The Mysterious Universe. Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1930, ch. 1.

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