Arise Quote by A. E. Wilder-Smith

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an…

— Fred Hoyle

“the laws of nature are rigged in favor of life.” In this view, “life emerges from a soup in the same dependable way that…

— Kevin Kelly

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big…

— Fred Hoyle

“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the earth. Here,…

— R.W. van Bemmelen

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the…

— Fred Hoyle

“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all…

— Fred Hoyle

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it…

— Michael Denton

Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them…

— Fred Hoyle

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the…

— Stephen Hawking

Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for…

— Christian de Duve

“Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.”

— Zecharia Sitchin

Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious…

— Roger Caillois