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We do not know and will not know.

— Emil du Bois-Reymond Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens (1872)

Ignoramus et ignorabimus.

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Where and under what form life first appeared, whether at the bottom of the deep sea, as bathybius protoplasm, or whether with the co-operation of the still excessive ultra-violet solar rays, with still higher pressure of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, who can tell?

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