Life
"What is life?" The question has been asked innumerable times but has been answered to the satisfaction of few. Science is based on the experience that nature gives intelligent answers to intelligent questions. To senseless questions, nature gives senseless answers - or no answers at all. If nature has never provided an answer to this question, perhaps something is wrong with the question.The question is wrong indeed. It has no sense, for life in itself does not exist. No one has seen or measured life. Life is always linked to material systems; what man sees and measures are living systems of matter. Life is not a thing to be studied; rather, "being alive" is a quality of some physical systems. A look at the living world reveals an incredible variety of shapes, sizes, forms, and colors. There seems to be an infinite variability among living systems. How can man approach such complexity? How can he ask intelligent questions? One key to an intelligent approach may be the simple fact that things can be put together in two different ways: randomly or meaningfully. Things put together in random fashion form a senseless heap. Nine persons selected at random and placed together probably will form nothing more than a slightly
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Ernst Schrodinger, Robert Hooke, , Bowditch American, Cannon American, Marcello Malpighi, living systems, living system, nucleic acid, biological reactions, decrease entropy, amino acids, speech center, extremely complex, combined form, nerve cell meaningful, random variation, molecules amino acids, pull electron electrons, principle holds cell, electron electrons move,
Approximate Word count = 2998
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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