“A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.” LightLife IsAliveGenerationsPossibilityFitClaimsDarePhenomenonSpheresCosmicSpontaneousLikelihoodOrigin Of Life Author:Donald C. Peattie
“Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.” FactsLife IsEnergyCuttingBuiltWoodsFleshDustPhenomenonFuryPrimalHacksLifelessBaffled Author:Donald C. Peattie
