The atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if the stars hadn’t exploded because the elements – Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Iron – all the things that matter for evolution and for life weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars and the only way for them to get in your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here today.
—Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist
