Atoms Quote by Jeremy Narby
“If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.”
![“All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.” quote by Lewis Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/50b/lewis-thomas-2299_cells_all-of-today-s-dna-strung-through-all-th_239338.jpg)
![“[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or…” quote by Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c6/francis-collins-5281_atoms_decoding-the-human-genome-sequence-is-th_15604.jpg)
