John Donne in his shroud - St Pauls Cathedral
Pound St Pauls Church into atoms, & consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but, put all these atoms together, & you have St Pauls Church Dr Johnson in Boswells Life 20 July 1763
You can see, Samuel Johnson was what you might call a Premature Molecular Biologist; otherwise he could have considered the possibility that reassembly may have yielded Liverpool Station
Erwin Chagaff
