Borrowed Quote by Linus Pauling

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.

— Linus Pauling

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a…

— Nikola Tesla

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

— Nikola Tesla

“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

“Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he…

— Anthony Doerr

Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of…

— Werner Arber

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

— Alex Caceres

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

— Michael Behe

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute…

— Annie Dillard

Life is made of cycles.

— Filippo Inzaghi

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.

— Liam Neeson

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled…

— Carl Sagan