It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —

In The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11, 1863; Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, Sarah Wilmot, editors; Cambridge University Press, September 1999, page 278 | Sometimes paraphrased as “One might as well speculate about the origin of matter.”