The Human Body's Amazing Beauty
“… an adult, whose body is “a temple, a warehouse, laboratory, pharmacy (the brain alone produces more than 50 psychoactive drugs), electric company, farm, mass-transit system, library (the brain stores the equivalent information of 500 sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica), utility company, hospital and sewage treatment plant. It also has a self-regulating police force, with daily infusions of millions of microscopic criminals and terrorists to apprehend; an array of traffic controllers; an army of medics and mechanics (a trillion platelets cruise the circulatory system daily in search of wounds); centralized and outlying governments that argue with one another (the stomach and the brain, for example, never agree on taking that second helping of chocolate cake); the motors, pumps, compressors, vacuums, regulators, air conditioners, furnaces, plumbing, filters, strainers, thermostats, alarm clocks, timers, and more.” -The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet by Thomas Dubay, S.M