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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.