Cells Quote by Michael Denton

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively…

— Asa Gray

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

— G. Ledyard Stebbins

Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations.…

— Simon Conway Morris

“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of life two…

— Phillip E. Johnson

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution,…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has…

— Albert Claude

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree…

— Densey Clyne

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared…

— Martinus Beijerinck

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that…

— Richard Smalley

Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of…

— Werner Arber