| The Earth is not a freak speck around a freak star in a freak galaxy, lost in an immense "unfeeling" whirlpool of stars and galaxies hurtling in time and space ever since the Big Bang. The Earth is part, together with trillions of other Earth-like bodies, of a cosmic cloud of "vital dust" that exists because the universe is what it is. | |||
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| Christian de Duve |
Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative Basic Books, 1995 |
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