Molecules Quotes - Page 3

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

  Galen

  Spiritual, Distance, Emotional

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• According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Dna, Brain

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• It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

  Francis Crick

  Acid, Determined, Protein

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• My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Ice, Water, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

  Edwin Conklin

  Life, Science, Organization

  "Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis" by Edwin Grant Conklin, Oxford University Press, August 22, 1994.

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• Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Spinning, Shifting, Ecstasy

  "The Limits of Control". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

  Denis Diderot

  Animal, Matter, Comfort

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

  Norman Mailer

  Meaningful, Believe, Wind

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.520, Harvard University Press

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• Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, Social, Subjects

  Henry Charles Carey (1872). “Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey, LL.D.”, p.37

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• Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that constitute living organisms on a planet, and the nuclei of these same elements interact to generate the light of its star. Then the organisms on the planet come to depend wholly on that starlight, as they must if life is to persist. So it is that all life on the Earth runs on sunlight. [Referring to photosynthesis]

  George Wald

  Life, Running, Stars

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• It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are further applied to physiological problems it will be found that the significance of the hydrogen bond for physiology is greater than that of any other single structural feature.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Science, Hydrogen

  Linus Pauling (1960). “The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry”, p.450, Cornell University Press

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• When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Sweet, Science, Fire

  David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

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• It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.

  Linus Pauling

  Determination, Science, Illumination

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• Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Ecosystems, Organization

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• In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. If it were, it would be a gas, and a pint of it would have the same properties as regards heat, etc., as a pint of air, except that it would not be so heavy.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Knowing, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.132, MIT Press

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• Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

  Francis Crick

  Life, Science, Understanding

  1988 What Mad Pursuit, ch.5.

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• The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

  Deepak Chopra

  Eight, Years, Atoms

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dna, Typical

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• If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Cancer, Joy

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Life, Would Be

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.

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• Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Cells, Numbers

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• A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

  David Bodanis

  Past, Oxygen, Years

  David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books

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• At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

  Arthur Compton

  Half, Dozen, Lasts

  Arthur Holly Compton (1973). “Scientific Papers of Arthur Holly Compton: X-Ray and Other Studies”, p.688, University of Chicago Press

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• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Energy, Atoms

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• UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Energy, Atoms

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