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"If scientists discover, as they probably will in time, what they call the secret of life, they will not have discovered the secret of life at all. What they will have discovered will be the physical conditions under which life manifests itself. In other words, science will most likely soon be able to set up artificially in a laboratory such physical conditions as exist in nature naturally, and by means of which life is able to manifest itself through matter. Life will still be as great a mystery as it is to-day; though short-sighted materialists are certain to announce to an eager world that the final problem of the universe has been solved and that life is merely the resultant of a subtle chemical compound."
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (footnote to page 499), 1911
Not that that's "the final problem of the universe" by any means. I guess Evans-Wentz wasn't into physics, which I think is where a lot of science's "final problems" lie.
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (footnote to page 499), 1911
Not that that's "the final problem of the universe" by any means. I guess Evans-Wentz wasn't into physics, which I think is where a lot of science's "final problems" lie.