“So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.” Has BeensSeemsScienceProcessNatureSafeBasesAssumingSurfaceReactionsChemicalsProteinChemical ReactionsEnzymes Author:John Desmond Bernal
“The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.” ThinkingSelfFormLife IsProcessKnownRecordsBasesObservationConsistentConstructsFossilsStraightforwardPlausibleFactualOrigin Of Life Book:The origin of life Source: The origin of life
