Joseph Simon Newman Quotes

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Thus man, in essence, seems to be A problem based on chemistry.

Joseph Simon Newman
This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.

Joseph Simon Newman
All living protoplasmic cells That make up frogs or pimpernels Or men or hippopotami Have portions known as nuclei. Within these microscopic homes There lurk our fateful chromosomes, Those strange hereditary factors That make us good or bad actors, That shape our lips and chins and eyebrows And predetermine fools and highbrows.

Joseph Simon Newman
Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of shameless molecules Broke all the inorganic rules And (C.I.O. epitomized!) Spontaneously organized.

Joseph Simon Newman
A million years ago, or six... perhaps as much as seven, When rhizopods were spewing forth the chalky cliffs of Devon, Upon a cool and mossy rock, beneath a bed of sedum, A trilobite named Annie lived in trilobitish freedom.

Joseph Simon Newman
There's none to say how carbon first Conceived it ocy-hydric thirst — How nitrogen, in right proportion, And sulphur joined the strange consortion — But close upon the tenuous verge Where shadows end, does life emerge, And from these elemental five Sprang proteid molecules alive!

Joseph Simon Newman
A highly speculative void Divides the germ and anthropoid But we've discovered certain clues In fossilized primordial ooze Where ancient polyps lived and died And countless myriads multiplied.

Joseph Simon Newman
Man is born, eats, procreates, and dies This sequence of events alike applies To horses, herring, crocodiles, and flies.

Joseph Simon Newman