Biochemistry Quote by Jacques Monod Download Open image “There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.” — Jacques Monod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biochemistry Life Matter Molecular biology
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy. — Jay DeFeo Copy Share Image
There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus there is… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which passes through… — Bertalanffy Ludwig Von Copy Share Image
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.” — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image