Deep in the sea, all molecules repeat the patterns of another, till complex new ones are formed. They make others like themselves, and a new dance starts. Growing in size and complexity, living things, masses of atoms, DNA, protein, dancing a pattern ever more intricate. Out of the cradle, onto dry land, here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea, wondering: I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

-Richard Feynman