“Solar energy does not just flow to the earth and radiate away; it is thermodynamically inevitable that it must rearrange matter into symmetry, away from probability, against entropy, lifting it, so to speak, into a constantly changing condition of rearrangement and molecular ornamentation. In such a system, the outcome is a chancy kind of order, always on the verge of descending into chaos, held tight against probability by the unremitting, constant surge of energy from the sun.”
-Louis Thomas
The Lives of a Cell
