Harold Morowitz quotes
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“The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!”
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“The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.”
-- Harold MorowitzSource : "Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics". Book by Harold Morowitz, 1968.
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“Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.”
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“The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.”
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“I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.”
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“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”
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“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”
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“I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances”
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“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”
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