"Now, however, systems are being discovered and studied which are neither obviously living nor obviously dead, and it is necessary to define these words or else give up using them and coin others."

The role of viruses in the continuous evolution of life is further evidence of the fact that there is no finite line between what is alive and not.

Years from now people will be putting stickers in Kansas schoolbooks saying that viruses are just a theory.

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