Biochemistry Quote by Warren Weaver

“Morgan had discovered an important modification to Mendel's laws. Genes did not travel separately; instead, they moved in packs. Packets of information were themselves…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

— Thomas Thomson

“I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly. Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to…

— Daniel O'Malley

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

— Cynthia Kenyon

“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action of the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Richard Dawkins would be the first to agree: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for…

— J. Warner Wallace

In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the…

— Marjory Stephenson

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as…

— Michael Polanyi

“Life is chemistry, not biology.”

— Joey Lawsin

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made…

— Wilhelm Johannsen

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg