„The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.“
— Carl Sagan, книга Космос
44 min 50 sec
Источник: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Blues For a Red Planet [Episode 5]
Контексте: 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.