Assembly Quote by Bruce Alberts

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

— Michael Behe

“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

“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies…

— Marcello Malpighi

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

— Rodney Brooks

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level,…

— James Rothman

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

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

“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the…

— Scott A. Minnich

Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they function, and…

— Leroy Hood

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

— Anonymous

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag…

— Rodney Brooks

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are…

— Richard Dawkins