# Quote — Nick Lane, Transformer

> The inner logic of ... Much of it is imposed by thermodynamics; some is facilitated by catalysts. Some is refined by genes. And part stems from the vicissitudes of life itself, which forced evolution down improbable paths, while transforming our geologically restless globe from a sterile, anoxic planet into the living, high-octane world of today.

- 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-inner-logic

## 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 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-lane/transformer/the-driving-force.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)