For Over Two Billion Years, Through The

If We Examine The Accomplishments Of Man In His Most Advanced Endeavors, In Theory And In Practice, We Find That The Cell Has Done All This Long Before Him, With Greater Resourcefulness And Much Greater Efficiency.

I Remember Vividly My Student Days, Spending Hours At The Light Microscope, Turning Endlessly The Micrometric Screw, And Gazing At The Blurred Boundary Which Concealed The Mysterious Ground Substance Where The Secret Mechanisms Of Cell Life Might Be Found.

We Know The Laws Of Trial And Error, Of Large Numbers And Probabilities. We Know That These Laws Are Part Of The Mathematical And Mechanical Fabric Of The Universe, And That They Are Also At Play In Biological Processes. But, In The Name Of The Experimental Method And Out Of Our Poor Knowledge, Are We Really Entitled To Claim That Everything Happens By Chance, To The Exclusion Of All Other Possibilities?

The Cell, Over The Billions Of Years Of Her Life, Has Covered The Earth Many Times With Her Substance, Found Ways To Control Herself And Her Environment, And Insure Her Survival.

Man, Like Other Organisms, Is So Perfectly Coordinated That He May Easily Forget, Whether Awake Or Asleep, That He Is A Colony Of Cells In Action, And That It Is The Cells Which Achieve, Through Him, What He Has The Illusion Of Accomplishing Himself.