Body Quote by Albert Claude

“To visualize this dance, the transparent components of the cell had to be coloured using a stain. As it happened, the stains that were…

— Nick Lane

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but…

— Albert Claude

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small;…

— Jason Silva

I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could…

— Stefan Hell

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in…

— George Emil Palade

“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some 40 per…

— Nick Lane

“Each of us bears billions of one-celled creatures within us, and not just as free-riders. They are our best friends, and deadliest enemies. Some…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing if not…

— Nick Lane

As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once…

— John Jacob Abel

“nanoscope, the young lab technician could easily study particles as small as one nanometer in diameter – the equivalent of one billionth”

— Nick Stephenson

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

— Maggie Stiefvater