¶ DNA
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DNA:
“In recent years chemistry and physics together have been able to run down the variables in the design of nature down into as far as biology goes, life down into a very important area, DNA, what we call deoxyribonucleic acids inside the protein shell. Whatever goes on in there apparently controls all the design of nature and all the life formulations. It is the area where the chemistry could be called crystallography, it could be called metals or it could be called animate. It is the complete threshold of the two. Because it is the threshold, people who like to be prosaic and like to make man feel so small can say everything is just going to turn out to be inanimate chemistry and you are all the consequence of probabilities and you might as well jump in the river. This area then of the threshold is where the DNA is found and the controls of the patterning of life are down to four compounds of chemistry which, somehow or other, develop a code and out of this code these four letters and all the designs occur.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #4, p. 135.6 Jul’62
