You and I Are Not Much Different from Cans of Soup

At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.

Philip Nelson, American physicist
in Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life

Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life written by Philip Nelson