The Song of the Cell: How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I sometimes think of the Greek story of the Delphic boat. The boat is built of many planks. Bit by bit, the planks decay and are replaced by new ones, until all of them are new. But has the boat changed? Is it even the same boat?

Theseus boat