„how beautiful is the universe
when something digestible meets
with an eager digestion
how sweet the embrace
when atom rushes to the arms
of waiting atom“

„The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.“

—  Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Blues For a Red Planet [Episode 5], Context: 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. 44 min 50 sec