命は道を拓く inochi wa michi wo hiraku Life Will Find A Way

命 inochi is life, the life in a living body; 道 michi is a way, a path; 拓く hiraku is to open in the land-clearing sense, to break new ground, the spelling the dictionary keeps for pioneering. The line is Ian Malcolm's in Jurassic Park (1993), in the screenplay life finds a way, his answer to whether an all-female population could breed; the will on the design is the smoothing the saying took on afterward.

The Japanese is the house's, and 拓く is the verb that keeps Malcolm's meaning: in his sentence, life makes its way.

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