"We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive."

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

— Carl Sagan