Molecular Biology Quotes

“Every disease that’s with us is caused by DNA. And every disease can be fixed by DNA.”
― George M. Church

“For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.”
― Lynn Margulis

“Every disease that’s with us is caused by DNA. And every disease can be fixed by DNA.”
― George Church

“We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an urgency about the need for more intensive application of physics and chemistry, and specially of structure analysis, that is still not sufficiently appreciated.”
― William Astbury

“Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“To your biology, survival of your genes is more important than accomplishment of your dreams.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The building blocks of life come from nature, and upon death they merge back with nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“All experiences, emotions, behaviors and beliefs, that make us humans, are the creation of various intricate and inexplicable molecular interactions within the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything

“What is life - life is not merely the functional expression of protoplasmic substance - it is the functional expression of protoplasmic substance that holds unimaginable potential for growth and progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“The question of why behind every phenomenon in nature, does not have one answer, it has infinite layers of answer, and the more layers you unravel, the closer you get to understanding the makeup of the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Closely allied with the contribution of chemists to the alleviation of disease is their involvement at a molecular level. Biology became chemistry half a century ago when the structure of DNA was discovered (in 1953). Molecular biology, which in large measure has sprung from that discovery, is chemistry applied to the functioning of organisms. Chemists, often disguised as molecular biologists, have opened the door to understanding life and its principal characteristic, inheritance, at a most fundamental level, and have thereby opened up great regions of the molecular world to rational investigation. They have also transformed forensic medicine, brought criminals to justice, and transformed anthropology.”
― Peter Atkins, Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction

“In nature nothing is hardwired, everything is livewired, everything is evolvable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Mission is purpose magnified,
Purpose is potential focused,
Potential is protoplasm evolving,
Protoplasm is a pocket universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Biochemistry illuminates the invisible pathways of life, guiding us towards a deeper understanding of the complex web of molecular interactions that shape our existence.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“DNA test may reveal your ancestry, but there is no DNA test for character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Life is too sacred to be confined by obsolete lies and superstitions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“One has to grow old to understand the functioning of science. Then one may remember the papers which a long time ago aroused great interest and one may compare them to the present-day textbooks. [...] History becomes smooth, too smooth in writing. Right starts are forgotten, wrong expeditions into the desert disappear without a trace. Only a few papers will be cited.”
― Benno Müller-Hill, The Lac Operon: A Short History of a Genetic Paradigm by Müller-Hill, Benno (1996) Paperback

“Biochemistry is the language of life spoken in the smallest of parts yet felt in the grandest of forms.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero