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Leslie Eleazer Orgel
(12 Jan 1927 - 27 Oct 2007)
English-American evolutionary biologist and chemist whose studies of the early development of life helped form the theory of the biochemical origins of DNA, and RNA as its precursor.
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Science Quotes by Leslie Eleazer Orgel (2 quotes)
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
— Leslie Eleazer Orgel
In Jack D. Dunitz and Gerald F. Joyce, 'Leslie Eleazer Orgel', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (2013), Vol. 59, 286.
Orgel's First Rule: Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or too inefficient a protein will evolve to speed it up or make it more efficient.
— Leslie Eleazer Orgel
In Jack D. Dunitz and Gerald F. Joyce, 'Leslie Eleazer Orgel', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (2013), Vol. 59, 286.
See also:
- 12 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Orgel's birth.
- The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection, by Leslie Orgel. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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