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Peter M. Hoffmann
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“A nanometer is so small, you would need to slice the width of a human hair one hundred thousand times to reach a nanometer.”
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
“you can easily see a nanometer-size machine, like a little two-legged creature, wait, then suddenly do a quick step, then wait again, step again, and so on. Is this molecule alive? No, not in the full sense of the word. But watching it stride by, you can see how many such machines, interacting in some regulated way, can make a living being. This surely is where life begins.”
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
“The evolution of a sophisticated machine like kinesin does not require that each part be invented from scratch or that all parts come into existence simultaneously. When it comes to evolution, almost anything goes.”
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
― Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
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