12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 There Is No Living Matter

There are living systems; there is no living 'matter.' No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.
Folksonomies: life systems matter
Folksonomies: life systems matter
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There are only living systems.

01 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Failure to Produce Fake Results Confirms a Model

One of the most striking evidences of the reliability of the organic chemist's methods of determining molecular structure is the fact that he has never been able to derive satisfactory structures for supposed molecules which are in fact nonexistent.
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Example from organic chemsitry's inability to produce structures for molecules that do not exist.