I Am On The Edge Of Mysteries

When You Believe You Have Found An Important Scientific Fact, And Are Feverishly Curious To Publish It, Constrain Yourself For Days, Weeks, Years Sometimes, Fight Yourself, Try And Ruin Your Own Experiments, And Only Proclaim Your Discovery After Having Exhausted All Contrary Hypotheses. But When, After So Many Efforts You Have At Last Arrived At A Certainty, Your Joy Is One Of The Greatest Which Can Be Felt By A Human Soul.

Great Problems Are Now Being Handled, Keeping Every Thinking Man In Suspense; The Unity Or Multiplicity Of Human Races; The Creation Of Man 1,000 Years Or 1,000 Centuries Ago; The Fixity Of Species, Or The Slow And Progressive Transformation Of One Species Into Another; The Eternity Of Matter; The Idea Of A God Unnecessary: Such Are Some Of The Questions That Humanity Discusses Nowadays.

There Is A Time In Every Man's Life When He Looks To His God, When He Looks At His Life, When He Wonders How He Will Be Remembered.

Are The Atoms Of The Dextroacid (tartaric) Grouped In The Spirals Of A Right-hand Helix Or Situated At The Angles Of An Irregular Tetrahedron, Or Arranged In Such Or Such Particular Unsymmetrical Fashion? We Are Unable To Reply To These Questions. But There Can Be No Reason For Doubting That The Grouping Of The Atoms Has An Unsymmetrical Arrangement With A Non-superimposable Image. It Is Not Less Certain That The Atoms Of The Laevo-acid Realize Precisely An Unsymmetrical Arrangement Of The Inverse Of The Above.

If It Is A Terrifying Thought That Life Is At The Mercy Of The Multiplication Of These Minute Bodies [microbes], It Is A Consoling Hope That Science Will Not Always Remain Powerless Before Such Enemies.