Until 1930 Or Thereabout Biologists [using Microscopes],

This Attempt To Isolate Cell Constituents Might Have Been A Failure If They Had Been Destroyed By The Relative Brutality Of The Technique Employed. But This Did Not Happen.

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

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.

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.

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?