“What we want to know is how organic molecules actually form in comets and whether they helped deliver organic material to the Earth before life began.”
Don Brownlee
“It doesn't burn the material, but takes apart the molecules to form gases. The only thing you can't put in is radioactive material.”
Bill Miller
“The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.”
Denis Diderot
“Finding that small RNAs comprise a potent set of regulatory molecules in diverse organisms is among the most important discoveries in the past 10 years. This research is pioneering in its ability to characterize these important regulatory molecules on a genome-wide scale.”
John West
“Single molecule absorption spectroscopy is an extremely sensitive technique for analytical chemistry, for measuring electrical properties of molecules, and for studying energy transfer on surfaces. While most molecules don't fluoresce -- limiting the usefulness of single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy -- all molecules absorb, making single molecule absorption spectroscopy a much more general approach.”
Martin Gruebele
“One of the outstanding problems in astronomy today is whether complex organic molecules of hydrogen and carbon, similar to those responsible for life on Earth, are present in the early universe.”
Yanling Wu
“I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.”
Charlotte Whitton
