The most terrible thing about materialism is not that it assumes the world to be made of atoms, but that it assumes this ideal notion of material atoms to be something particularly scientific, particular real, or particularly philosophic.

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they are made of stardust literally.

The hypothesis that life originates in the inorganic world is the only hypothesis consonant with the present state of scientific knowledge.

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they have formed the cores of stars—gone through many transformations of the universe and of all the transformations of matter in space and time we are their inheritors.