“Every cell from a cell.”
Omnis cellula e cellula
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician
“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”
They not only obey them; they utilize them as a good engineer would, with maximum efficiency, to carry out the project and bring about the "dream" (as François Jacob put it) of every cell: to become two cells.
Source: Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod:
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Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986) American biochemist
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John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 195
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
