469 Quotes About Cells

  • Author E. O. Wilson
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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.

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  • Author Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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    Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

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  • Author Graham Walker
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    In general, we think that nature evolved this function to help us survive DNA damage that would otherwise kill us. It's probably a kind of damage that all cells encounter frequently in life.

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  • Author Isaac Watts
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    A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

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  • Author James D. Watson
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    The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

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  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

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