“We are taught that cells are machines, though no machine we have invented behaves like the simplest cell; that DNA is a code or a blueprint, though it is neither; that the brain is a computer, though no computer behaves like a brain at all.”
—Adam Rutherford (Guardian 20240111)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/11/how-life-works-by-philip-ball-review-the-magic-of-biology
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