Enzymes Quotes

• Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

  Randy Schekman

  Cells, Chemistry, Responsible

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• As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

  Edward Lawrie Tatum

  Numbers, Genes, Function

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• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Resemblance Is, Whales

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Workplace, Plant, Crops

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• During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Years, Minnesota, Evening

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• Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Dream, Catalyst For Change, Slogans

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• In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

  Hugh Martin

  Dna, Cells, Two

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• So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Nature, Science, Safe

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Facts, Doe, Rebellious

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• Wheatgrass juice is the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth, the blood of all life. The elements that are missing in your body's cells-especially enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and nucleic acids can be obtained through this daily green sunlight transfusion.

  Viktoras Kulvinskas

  Cells, Blood, Missing

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• Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

  Hendrik Poinar

  Dna, Nuclear, Protein

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• You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Activity

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• [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Long, Doe, Novelty

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• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Gold Teeth, Crafts, Manipulation

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• We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Dna, Decrease, Lows

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.57, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

  Frank Capra

  Play, Numbers, Boss

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

  Dorothy Parker

  Differences, Hormones, Innuendo

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Plant

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• It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Faith, Bacteria, Belief

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• When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

  Carla Gugino

  Time Zones, Vitamins, Helping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Flower, Wine, Mean

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.87, Random House

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• If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Heart, Beer, Thinking

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• It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much as 10 million times. It had to do this by lowering the energy of activation-the energy of forming the activated complex. It could do this by forming strong bonds with the activated complex, but only weak bonds with the reactants or products.

  Linus Pauling

  Strong, Energy, Answers

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• The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.

  Hugo Theorell

  Ions, Toxic, Fluoride

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