Paul Davies

"To a physicist like me, life looks to be little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!"

"I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate."

"Information in life... amounts to much more than just playing the margins of the, and gaining some... energy advantage. ...I'm calling this a demonic cut. It's much more than just Shannons at the ther…"

"This web of information extends beyond individual organisms and communities of organisms to a planetary scale. ...Andrew Kim and Harrison Smith... looked at over 28,000 genomes and... produced this...…"

"e... need some new physics. ...The attempt to square the circle by starting out with known physics at the atomic level and somehow life emerging at some higher level... I... don't think we're going to…"

"ax Delbrück... expressed it... ... t the level of atoms it's just known physics, but at the level of the living cell it's some sort of magic."

"In each and every one of us lies a message. It is inscribed in an ancient code, its beginnings lost in the mists of time. Decrypted, the message contains instructions on how to make a human being. Nob…"

"hat great information processing system between our ears... probably ...the grandest example we know of... in the universe."