Quotes
In relation to Life,
"Pasteur's empirical results were summarized in the phrase Omne vivum ex vivo, Latin for "all life [is] from life". After obtaining his results, Pasteur stated: "La génération spontanée est une chimère" ("Spontaneous generation is a chimera")."
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"From astronomers' early work in the 19th and 20th centuries, there emerged a better appreciation of where the necessary elements for life came from. Many light elements, including carbon, were mainly fashioned within the cores of low- and high-mass stars, while many other heavy elements needed by some types of life---molybdenum and vanadium, for example---were synthesized within supernovas.
This understanding of how elements were formed was a startling advance in our perspective of how life fits within the cosmic context. With this astronomical insight, we could now know the very origins of the elements of life and thus link the physics of the universe to the atomic structure of living things. Within this growing clarity, there was also something strangely disturbing and sobering about the truly cosmic origins of our existence."
-Charles Cockell, The Equations of Life