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The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
Michael Polanyi
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Michael Polanyi
Age: 84 †
Born: 1891
Born: March 11
Died: 1976
Died: February 22
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