Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Found:

Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan (“What is Life?” 1995: 232)

Life is too shoddy a production… to have been designed by a flawless Master. And yet life is more impressive and less predictable than any “thing” whose nature can be accounted for solely by “forces” acting deterministically. The godlike qualities of life on Earth include neither omniscience nor omnipotence, although an argument could be made for earthly omnipresence…The cosmos, more dazzling than any sect’s god, is enough. Life is existence’s celebration.”