Characteristics Quote by Karl Landsteiner

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

— Michael Behe

“Any of the components of an organism-say, a haemoglobin molecule-can be given an arbitrarily complete and precise description in the language of atomic physics…

— Paul Davies

“Living organisms are constructed, for the most part, from compounds of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is critical because of its astonishing flexibility. Add hydrogen,…

— David Christian

As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry…

— Linus Pauling

“This chapter reveals and elaborates upon the exquisite beauty of protein structure.”

— Reginald H. Garrett

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

— Michael Behe

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and…

— Richard J. Roberts

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

— Randy Schekman

“It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the chemical nature…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— David Christian