"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, aided by the radiation energy received from the sun, countless chemical materials were synthesized and accumulated in such a way that they constituted, as it were, a primeval “soup.” In this primeval soup, by infinite variations of lifeless growth and decay of substances during some billions of years, the way of life was ultimately reached, with its metabolism characterized by selective assimilation and dissimulation as end stations of a sluiced and canalized flow of free chemical energy."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Origin of life
9 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Origin of life →
Related Quotes
"The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all o…"
"It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —"
"The fine-tuning of the universe, about which cosmologists make such a to-do, is both complex and specified and readil…"
"It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces."
"Life could spread from planet to planet or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors."
"Believing the first cell originated by chance is like believing a tornado ripping through a junkyard full of airplane…"
"You know, my brothers, the nature of our business. The child you see before you, thanks to a talisman stolen from the…"
"Q: Strange, isn't it, Jean-Luc? Everything you know... your entire civilization... it all begins right here in this l…"
"Carbonization drives off moisture... with... low molecular weight organic compounds... from extractives and... pyroly…"
"has not been generally used as a feedstock in simple thermal cracking... because the decomposition temperature is too…"