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"I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite." — John Donne, 'Holy Sonnet V' (1618)
"In the beginning was the word WORD WORE GORE GONE GENE and by the mutations came the gene." — Michael A. Arbib
"Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill; others, that it is a fermenting vat; others, again that it is a stew-pan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan, but a stomach gentlemen, a stomach." — John Hunter, A Treatise on Diet (1824)