"Inborn errors of metabolism." — Archibald Garrod

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• There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living… — Jacques Monod
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• As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same… — Warren Weaver
• For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that… — Unknown Author
• If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making… — Robert Boyle
• In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries… — Marjory Stephenson
• Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff

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