Isaac Asimov Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992
Birthday: January 2
Death: April 6
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.
source: Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.31, Macmillan
topic: Long, Effort, Forever, Intricate, Cloudy Day, Amino Acids
