Mitochondria Quotations

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.