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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call them machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.
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In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
Bruce Alberts
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It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.
Bruce Alberts -
The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered.
Bruce Alberts -
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.
Bruce Alberts -
This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.
Bruce Alberts -
For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.
Bruce Alberts