Backbone Quote by Juan Enriquez

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

— Frances Arnold

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up…

— Michael Specter

We, our environment, our universe all share a common code base. In living things, this code comprises sequences of base pairs that repeat across…

— Bryan Johnson

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

— Richard Powers

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

— Richard Dawkins

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well…

— David Eagleman

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

— Frances Arnold

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed…

— Francis Crick

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and…

— William A. Dembski

“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms)…

— Max Tegmark

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

— Isaac Asimov

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical…

— Thomas Nagel