Book read: "What is Life" by Erwin Schrödinger

I found this book by pure chance, and pure change is also one of the topics of this book. Is it pure chance that life looks like we see it? Or are there deeper laws (of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or God) involved we may do not know about?

How on earth was life able to create more complex (and ordered) specimen with generations over time, when we know that following the 2nd law of thermodynics all order has to decease?

It is really interesting how much insight the scienties Schrödinger had in 1944 when he wrote this book based on lectures he held on Trinity College in Dublin. A lot of knowledge was quite recent this time and not of Schrödinger's own domain, who has been a brillant theoretical physicis. But it enjoying to have him narrate about the already rising science of molecular biology, quantum physics and Darwinism - that was quite younger and maybe sill disputed at the time. Well it is still disputed today, but that's another thing.

An interesting book, reading in a fine stile of one of the greatest scientists who has left his secure scientific domain.

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1142379/?site_locale=en_GB