Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
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Life ... is a relationship between molecules.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is fundamentally connected to the interactions at a molecular level.
Linus Pauling's quote emphasizes that the essence of life is rooted in the relationships and interactions between molecules. This perspective highlights the importance of molecular chemistry in understanding biological processes and illustrates how life, in its most basic form, is an intricate web of molecular interactions.
Themes
LifeMoleculesRelationshipsChemistryBiology
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture on biochemistry, this quote can be used to introduce the importance of molecular interactions in life processes.
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