Action Quote by Claude Bernard

Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction.

— Heidi Hammel

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

— Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

— Isaac Asimov

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

— Friedrich Engels

“It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the chemical nature…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually…

— Justus von Liebig

While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances…

— Renato Dulbecco

“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter can be…

— Aldous Huxley

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole…

— Hippocrates

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality…

— Edmund Husserl

Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or…

— Barry Commoner

My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins