Biochemistry Quote by Jacques Monod

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

— Jacques Monod

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

— Linus Pauling

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

— Anonymous

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

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

“This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts and pieces…

— Wallace Johnson

The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as…

— Oscar Hertwig

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of…

— Dean Koontz

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of…

— Francis Crick

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

— David Christian

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma