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The chemist strives to explain the inanimate world by reference to mechanistic laws. The historian strives to understand the world of human culture by reference to a fabric of plans and purposes... Nowhere is this encounter in sharper focus than in the problem of the origin of life.
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Ladies and gentlemen, throughout my lecture I have presented to you nothing but speculation.
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Günter Wächtershäuser
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1938
(age 86)
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Günter Wächtershäuser, a German chemist turned patent lawyer, is mainly known for his work on the origin of life, and in particular his iron-sulfur world theory, a theory that life on Earth had hydrothermal origins.
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