Harold Morowitz quotes:

The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion...

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.