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Quotes from Transformer — Nick Lane

b. 1967

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The genetic code is riddled with redundancy.

Transformer (2022)

If the Krebs cycle is ordained by thermodynamics, then it should take place spontaneously in some suitably propitious envirnonment, even in the absence of genes.

Transformer (2022)

This book will explore how the flow of energy and matter structures the evolution of life and even genetic information.

Transformer (2022)

It is the movement that creates the form.

Transformer (2022)

The driving force of metabolism is thermodynamics. ...[I]n this context ...the chemical need to react (to dissipate energy) in the same way that water needs to flow downhill.

Transformer (2022)

Flux is a form of flow, but with one crucial difference. ...In biochemistry flux is the flow of things that are transformed along the way.

Transformer (2022)

Biochemistry became the study of how... simple molecules were interconnected one into another. ...The [simple] molecules ...containing ...up to about twenty carbons, but most ...have fewer than ten.

Transformer (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nick Lane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.