Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins

“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes is uncannily…

— Matt Ridley

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is…

— Richard Dawkins

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

— Bill Gates

“Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

— Matt Ridley

Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they function, and…

— Leroy Hood

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at…

— Michael Specter

“Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital computers optimizing…

— George Dyson

“Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered an enzyme found in retroviruses that could build DNA from an RNA template. They called the enzyme reverse…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative…

— Nadia Abu El Haj

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We…

— James Gleick

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by…

— Matt Ridley