One of the most interesting features of the molecules is their ability of appearance, “sprouting”- absolutely everywhere in the world of atoms. There are no atoms, which in certain conditions would not be able to become connected with other molecules. Therefore the world of molecules does not set apart from the world of atoms, but rather surrounds it as a cloud or an atmosphere. Alhough in some situations, on some sectors, along some rays the moleculisation is especially active and it is more and more intensive. When the world of atoms reacts as a rigid cluster, the world of molecules just opposite- it reveals an inner plasticity, which enables pseudopids to “trickle” or sprout in all directions. The enigmatic group of proteins is just like that.
I will use the name “proteins” to describe many substances, continually examined, which groups connect with various elements in simple or complex chains, elongated or closed, sometimes gaining fantastic molecular weight reaching many millions. Hence their form is so changeable. The proteins- as someone described it jocularly- are distinguished by Protheus’s variability.
Teilhard de Chardin
Works made in collaboration with Monika Pich 2005