As Far As I Remember, Even Younger

For Over Two Billion Years, Through The Apparent Fancy Of Her Endless Differentiations And Metamorphosis The Cell, As Regards Its Basic Physiological Mechanisms, Has Remained One And The Same. It Is Life Itself, And Our True And Distant Ancestor.

Looking Back 25 Years Later, What I May Say Is That The Facts Have Been Far Better Than The Dreams. In The Long Course Of Cell Life On This Earth It Remained, For Our Age For Our Generation, To Receive The Full Ownership Of Our Inheritance.

Once Ptolemy And Plato, Yesterday Newton, Today Einstein, And Tomorrow New Faiths, New Beliefs, And New Dimensions.

Is It Absurd To Imagine That Our Social Behavior, From Amoeba To Man, Is Also Planned And Dictated, From Stored Information, By The Cells? And That The Time Has Come For Men To Be Entrusted With The Task, Through Heroic Efforts, Of Bringing Life To Other Worlds?

Until 1930 Or Thereabout Biologists [using Microscopes], In The Situation Of Astronomers And Astrophysicists, Were Permitted To See The Objects Of Their Interest, But Not To Touch Them; The Cell Was As Distant From Us, As The Stars And Galaxies Were From Them.