How can carbon atoms string themselves into amino acids, which entwine into proteins, which compose living cells of great complexity — and the cells form an algae, or a cricket, or a person? How can a combination of amino acids write a symphony, or draft the Bill of Rights, or achieve a moon landing, or feel patriotism for a segment of Earth’s crust likewise made of atoms?
- - The Dreams of which Stuff is Made by James A. Haught, Sunday Gazette-Mail, January 10, 1993.
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