It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any…

It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as…

— Christian B. Anfinsen

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a…

— Francis Crick

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of…

— Francis Crick

Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are…

— Francis Crick

“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution”

— Carl Sagan

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson…

— Bill Watterson

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the…

— Wendy Mass

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

“Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an…

— Dan Brown

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more…

— Kary Mullis

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to…

— William Henry Bragg

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic…

— Will Durant

I love being a carbon molecule.

— Duncan Trussell

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman