Ancestor Quote by Albert Claude

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in…

— Herbert Spencer

Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past,…

— Bill Bryson

The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were…

— John M. Tyler

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

— Richard Dawkins

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces…

— Jacques Monod

In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system,…

— Michael Denton

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as…

— Oscar Hertwig

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

— Emile M. Cioran

“The cell has biological machines at work in it that have separate functions that all have to operate together simultaneously in order for the…

— Calvin W. Allison