Impossible Quote by Steven Johnson

Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment.

— Frances Arnold

Silicon is all around but it's tied up in rocks... with these very strong silicon-oxygen bonds that living systems would have to break in…

— Frances Arnold

In the universe of possibilities that exist for life, we've shown that it is a very easy possibility for life as we know it…

— Frances Arnold

“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so much as…

— John D. Barrow

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

— Frances Arnold

People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon?

— Frances Arnold

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

— Paul MacCready

Water is lifes mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Babloo

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi