Cell Quotes

837 quotes by 680 authors

Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards. — George W. Bush
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed… — Albert Claude
I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there. — Chris Colfer
I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without… — Marc Ostrofsky
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — William Feindel
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the… — Cesar Milstein
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. — Adolf von Baeyer
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
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
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
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
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans. — Orrin Hatch
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Martinus Beijerinck
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such… — Oscar Hertwig

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