Cell Quote by James Rothman

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which…

— Albert Claude

“The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecular level—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of “design!” The…

— Michael J. Behe

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

— Randy Schekman

I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how…

— James Rothman

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in…

— Lennart Nilsson

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Part of the problem was that no one knew exactly how a cell took a nucleic acid sequence and turned it into a blob…

— Matthew Cobb

“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

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

— Joshua Lederberg

“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until…

— Michael Denton