Cells Quote by Frank Herbert

The cell never acts; it reacts.

— Ernst Haeckel

“The cell has biological machines at work in it that have separate functions that all have to operate together simultaneously in order for the…

— Calvin W. Allison

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in…

— Herbert Spencer

“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed immune systems…

— Edwin H. Friedman

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has…

— Albert Claude

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce…

— James Rothman

The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.

— Devra Davis

“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have…

— Michael Denton

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse,…

— Lewis Thomas

Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward…

— Richard Preston

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

— Max Frisch

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

— Jean Baker Miller