Nick Lane is a biochemist and honorary reader at University College London, where he lives. His book Power, Sex, Suicide was named an Economist Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize.
"这是一个氧化还原反应,电子从供体(氢)转移到了更想要电子的受体(氧),形成了水,这是热力学上稳定的终产物。所有的氧化还原反应,都是电子从体转移到了受体;值得注意的是,所有的生命,不管是细菌还是人,其能量来面都是某一种电子转移。正如匈牙利诺贝尔奖得主阿尔伯特・圣捷尔吉( Albert SGyorgy)所言:“生命只不过是一个电子在寻找安息之所。”"