Ancestor Quote by Max Delbruck

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to…

— Nicholas Mosley

“We now know that the secret of life lies not with the chemical ingredients as such, but with the logical structure and organisational arrangement…

— Steve Kumar

“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere else but…

— Paul Davies

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for…

— Frances Arnold

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial…

— Fred Hoyle

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

— Linus Pauling

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology…

— Geoffrey Marcy

Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite…

— Seth Shostak

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have…

— Tony Buzan