Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.