origin_of_life

"The source of energy at the origin of life is the reaction between carbon dioxide and hydrogen."

"Oxygen makes it impossible really for life to start."

"I personally think that’s the single biggest invention in the whole history of life."

"I think the chances are pretty limited and the chances of us surviving are pretty limited too."

"I think the entire universe is just a giant mystery. I guess that’s what motivates me as a scientist."

"All the classic definitions people want to use just don’t work. They don’t work in all cases."

"The universe is far larger in time than it is in space, and this planet is one of the biggest things in the universe."

"I think life is the process of how information structures matter over time and space, and an example of life is what emerges on a planet and yields an open-ended cascade of generation of structure and increasing complexity."