More quotes by Nick Lane
Protocells of some sort [lie between a hydrothermal vent system and a virus] in my mind.
I do like this quote from Simon Conway Morris that if the aliens call then don't pick up the phone.
There has to be thermodynamic underpinnings for it, otherwise it wouldn't happen.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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