Astbury's Definition of Molecular Biology
".... not so much a technique as an approach, an approach from the viewpoint
of the so-called basic sciences with the leading idea of searching below the
large-scale manifestations of classical biology for the corresponding molecular
plan. It is concerned particularly with the forms of biological molecules and
..... is predominantly three-dimensional and structural - which does not mean,
however, that it is merely a refinement of morphology - it must at the same
time inquire into genesis and function"
W.T. Astbury [Nature 190, 1124 (1961)]