Molecular Quotes
114 quotes by 76 authors
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences…
— Ray Lankester
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The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born…
— Louis Pasteur
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The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,…
— Heinz Pagels
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I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form,…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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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
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular…
— Linus Pauling
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Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may…
— Max Delbruck
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life…
— Francis Crick
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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
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering…
— Francis Crick
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow…
— John Charles Polanyi
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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the…
— Holmes Rolston III
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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
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
— Erwin Chargaff
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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
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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and…
— C. D. Darlington
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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
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had…
— Richard Dawkins
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In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.…
— Corinne Heline
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We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly…
— Thomas Huxley
Who Wrote These Molecular Quotes
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