# Quote — Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence

> To a physicist like me, life looks to be little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!

- Author: [Paul Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies.md)
- Book: [The Eerie Silence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence.md)
- Page: 31
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Davies#The_Eerie_Silence:_Renewing_Our_Search_for_Alien_Intelligence_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-davies/the-eerie-silence/to-a-physicist