Components Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

— Barry Commoner

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as…

— Rodney Brooks

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from…

— Emilio Estevez

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

— Frances Arnold

Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science.…

— Robert Burns Woodward

“When does something man-made cease being synthetic, and become real?”

— Penny Reid

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human…

— Alan Lightman

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far…

— Robert Owen

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

— Frances Arnold

“Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be…

— Amy Leach