[M]ost of what I teach and interact with the students is more about life on earth and the principles governing evolution, and from my own point of vi… - Nick Lane

I see myself as a biologist or a biochemist, but... in the context of as a broader subject, it forces me to wrestle with physics, with cosmology, with chemistry, with geology, with earth sciences or planetary sciences, and that's a thrill. ...I think it's what most people are drawn into science in the first place for, because science, in its biggest sense, is what inspires people, and by the time that you've got to the level of doing a PhD, it's narrowed down so much that a lot of people are almost forced to lose their imagination, and their creativity as a scientist... I think astrobiology is a subject that puts all that back in, in heaps.

[A]ll multicellular plants and animals... contain mitochondria.

I said you [bacteria] are not morphologically complex, you are biochemically awesome.