Dulbecco, Renato
Renato Dulbecco was a Distinguished Research Professor at The Salk Institute, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (Physiology) in 1975 and co-author of Microbiology.

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The cell was the initial unit of life, and it remained so as life evolved. The Design of Life, 1987.

 

We can condense our findings about life by saying that life is the actuation of the instructions encoded in the genes. Ibid.

 

Nature is inventive. Ibid.

 

In the evolution of life DNA created the brain because devices were needed for sensing the environment: prey had to be identified, predators avoided, a mate located. Ibid.

 

Among the creatures more familiar to us are about twenty-five thousand species of birds, six thousand of reptiles, and fifteen thousand of mammals. Ibid.

 

We must remember that life is more than the human species and that the human species needs the whole of life. Ibid.