# Quote — Nick Lane, Transformer

> The driving force of is thermodynamics. ...[I]n this context ...the chemical need to react (to dissipate energy) in the same way that water needs to flow downhill.

- Author: [Nick Lane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane.md)
- Book: [Transformer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Lane#Transformer_(2022)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer/the-driving-force

## More from this book

> [M]etabolic flux... Even a simple bacterial cell can undergo... a billion trnasformations per second... is... what being alive is.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer/m-etabolic-flux-even.md)

> The double helix of DNA... is composed of two long chains [of 'letters'] that snake around each other... each strand providing an exact template for the other. ...[E]ach strand ...contains just four types of letter, with ...billions ...arranged down... the chain. ...3,000 million letters ...make up the human genome ...[T]he same — the same lines of code — can have different effects depending on the context.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer/the-double-helix.md)

> became the study of how... simple molecules were interconnected one into another. ...The [simple] molecules ...containing ...up to about twenty carbons, but most ...have fewer than ten.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer/became-the-study.md)