Quote by Matthew Cobb

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as…

— Anonymous

“Every result converged on the same conclusion: the transforming principle was composed of DNA. The discussion section of the article outlined the genetic context…

— Matthew Cobb

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter

“Nature ended up with the deoxyribonucleic acid molecule, DNA.”

— Bill Nye

“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

“If the adaptor hypothesis were true (and it was), this meant that the role of DNA and RNA would be reduced to simply carrying…

— Matthew Cobb

“DNA is static, but proteins are dynamic.”

— David B. Agus

“By the end of the 1940s, it was widely known that the levels of protein in the transforming principle were effectively zero.”

— Matthew Cobb

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

— Lewis Thomas

“By the end of the 1940s, support for the hypothesis that DNA had a fundamental role in heredity had grown much stronger.”

— Matthew Cobb

“DNA directs the construction of strings of chemicals; those chemicals influence the configuration of the whole organism; that configuration influences how likely it is…

— Bill Nye

“only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.”

— Dave Barry