Ben Stanger > Quotes

“and then back toward science when he was young, to the happenstance procedural modifications that allowed him, as a student, to detect what others had missed. In many ways, his path echoed the unpredictable journey that cells take as they find their own way in the cellular society, following their internal compasses at the same time that they respond to outside influences. For as we have already seen, embryonic development is the archetypal example of nature and nurture working in synergy.”
― Ben Stanger, From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

“The fundamental truth of our origin is this: every animal on earth starts its life as a single cell. But how does all the information necessary to make something so complex get compressed into something so simple?”
― Ben Stanger, From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine