# Quote — Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden

> The entire recent history of biology shows that we are, to a remarkable degree, the results of the interactions of an extremely complex array of molecules; and the aspect of biology that was once considered its holy of holies, the nature of the genetic material, has now been fundamentally understood in terms of the chemistry of its constituent nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, and their operational agents, the proteins.

- Author: [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md)
- Book: [Dragons of Eden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/dragons-of-eden.md)
- Page: 7
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#The_Dragons_of_Eden_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/dragons-of-eden/the-entire-recent

## More from this book

> A mutation in a DNA molecule within a chromosome of a skin cell in my index finger has no influence on heredity. Fingers are not involved, at least directly, in the propagation of the species.

p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/dragons-of-eden/a-mutation-in-a-dna.md)

> There is a popular contention that half or more of the brain is unused. From an evolutionary point of view this would be quite extraordinary: why should it have evolved if it had no function? But actually the statement is made on very little evidence.

p. 31 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/dragons-of-eden/there-is-a-popular.md)

> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/dragons-of-eden/absence-of-evidence.md)