Biochemistry Quotes - Page 3

• In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Unique, Cells

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• Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Love Is, Events, Three

  Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.21, Penguin

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• If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile fixed, and knows the power of the open air in promoting the former of those operations; it is not improbable, that both many things relating to the nature of the humours, and to the ways of sweetening, actuating, and otherwise altering them, may be detected, and the importance of such discoveries may be discerned.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Air, Discovery

  Robert Boyle (1664). “Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; ...”, p.37

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• As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a few pioneers of its own, a promise of success; but for the furtherance of its essential aim that century left it but a small inheritance of facts and methods. By its essential or ultimate aim I myself mean an adequate and acceptable description of molecular dynamics in living cells and tissues.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Mean, Cells, Discipline

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