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

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

“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

“From stars to soil to synapses,
arrangement of atoms dictates reality.
From inanimate to animate to sapient,
humanity is an affair of cosmic serendipity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“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

“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

“Science of Life, Class in Session
(Sonnet 2087-2088)

Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -

nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -

because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -

and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.

Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,

those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -

and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -

it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Soul is just electrochemical response of uniquely individual makeup of organic matter, once that individual makeup breaks down, the individual soul simply vanishes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Cell biology is soul biology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I am dust, I am ash -
I am cinders, I am grass.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace