“The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated …”

“The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.”

— Stephen Hawking

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Title: Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking
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From an appearance in the Discovery Channel program Alien Planet (14 May 2005)

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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

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