Biochemistry Quote by Ursula Goodenough

The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life…

— Allan Sandage

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

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“The actual structure of the life we know is deeply and pervasively anchored in the particularities of the periodic table. If one wishes to…

— Eric Smith

“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because of reactions…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

— Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of…

— Francis Crick

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by…

— Stephen Hawking

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

— Friedrich Engels

“Life is chemistry, not biology.”

— Joey Lawsin