There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its…

— Jacques Monod

“Law 5: Upgrade your systems for living. Extraordinary minds consistently spend time discovering, upgrading, and measuring new systems for living applied to life, work,…

— Vishen Lakhiani

It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a…

— Richard Dawkins

Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

— Erwin Chargaff

If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair…

— Marc Kirschner

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg

It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the…

— Sydney Brenner

Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned…

— John Tyler Bonner

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the…

— Jacob Bronowski

Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living…

— Stanford Moore

“Digital organizations are like the living systems that can self-renew in thriving as the high-performance businesses.”

— Pearl Zhu

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

— Martin O'Malley

“As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change, improve and…

— Ulrich Müller