Biochemistry Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex… — Claude Bernard
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical… — Herbert Spencer Jennings
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass… — Archibald Garrod
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room." — Warren Weaver
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile… — Robert Boyle
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.… — Marjory Stephenson
Inborn errors of metabolism. — Archibald Garrod
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed… — Robert Mayer
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,… — Richard Dawkins
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a… — Barbara Fredrickson
I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted. — Kinichiro Sakaguchi

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