domenica 22 novembre 2009

Tratto da un'intervista a Marshall Nirenberg, premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1968, fatta il 22 agosto 2005
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scoprire che i codici di varie specie (un batterio, una rana e un mammifero) erano identici fu una vera epifania: ora c'era la dimostrazione che abbiamo tutti un'origine comune. Da allora, quando guardo fuori della finestra e vedo dell'erba, un albero o uno scoiattolo, sento che sono tutti legati a me, e che tutti usiamo lo stesso linguaggio biologico. Benché io non sia per nulla religioso nel senso convenzionale, direi che si tratta di una visione panteistica, che mi lega a tutte le forme di vita".

I can't find this quote in english...saaaad.
Thanks to a friend of mine i now have a translation: thanks Emanuele!
"[...] the discovery that all codes coming from various species (bacteria, toads, mammals) were identical was an epiphany: that was the demonstration that we all had a common origin. Since then, when I look out of the window and I see grass, or a tree or a squirrel, I feel them tied to myself, since we all use the same biological language. I am not religious in the conventional sense, but this is a kind of pantheistic vision, that binds me to all lifeforms."

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  1. "[...] the discovery that all codes coming from various species (bacteria, toads, mammals) were identical was an epiphany: that was the demonstration that we all had a common origin. Since then, when I look out of the window and I see grass, or a tree or a squirrel, I feel them tied to myself, since we all use the same biological language. I am not religious in the conventional sense, but this is a kind of pantheistic vision, that binds me to all lifeforms."

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