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!


Poems for Penguins and Other Lyrical Lapses, Biochemistry, Greenburg. 1941

Joseph Simon Newman Quotes

There's none to say how carbon first Conceived it ocy-hydric thirst — How nitrogen, in right proportion, And sulphur joined the strange consortion...

There's none to say how carbon first Conceived it ocy-hydric thirst — How nitrogen, in right proportion, And sulphur joined the strange consortion...

There's none to say how carbon first Conceived it ocy-hydric thirst — How nitrogen, in right proportion, And sulphur joined the strange consortion...

There's none to say how carbon first Conceived it ocy-hydric thirst — How nitrogen, in right proportion, And sulphur joined the strange consortion...