"Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry……" — Erwin Chargaff
"Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license."
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15 Quotes by Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff has 15 quotes on this site.
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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even…
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant,…
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is…
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius…
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify…
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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be…
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history.…
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If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had…
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More Biochemistry Quotes
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will…
— Sydney Brenner
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Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by…
— Claude Bernard
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the…
— Claude Bernard
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living…
— Jacques Monod
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system…
— Unknown Author
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All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin,…
— Archibald Garrod
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As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same…
— Warren Weaver
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For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that…
— Unknown Author
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
— Robert Boyle
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In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Inborn errors of metabolism.
— Archibald Garrod
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