What is Life?
by Erwin Schrödinger (also rec’d by Deepak Chopra )
Buy on AmazonThis taut little book, which I encountered as a college freshman, invited biologists to think of life in more purely physical terms. Schrodinger was right of course, as witness the rise of molecular biology soon afterward. For me his arguments suggested delicious mysteries and great challenges. (Later, I was especially pleased when a reviewer likened my own book Genes, Mind, and Culture , published with C. J. Lumsden in 1981, to What Is Life? saying that it offered a comparable challenge from...
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"This taut little book, which I encountered as a college freshman, invited biologists to think of life in more purely physical terms. Schrodinger was right of course, as witness the rise of molecular biology soon afterward. For me his arguments suggested delicious mysteries and great challenges. (Later, I was especially pleased when a reviewer likened my own book Genes, Mind, and Culture , published with C. J. Lumsden in 1981, to What Is Life? saying that it offered a comparable challenge from..."
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