For The Resolving Powers Of Our Scientific

I Told Him That For A Modern Scientist, Practicing Experimental Research, The Least That Could Be Said, Is That We Do Not Know. But I Felt That Such A Negative Answer Was Only Part Of The Truth. I Told Him That In This Universe In Which We Live, Unbounded In Space, Infinite In Stored Energy And, Who Knows, Unlimited In Time, The Adequate And Positive Answer, According To My Belief, Is That This Universe May, Also, Possess Infinite Potentialities.

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

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.

This Familiarity With A Respected Physician And My Appreciation Of His Work, Or The Tragedy I Experienced With The Long, Tormented Agony And Death Of My Mother Might Have Influenced Me In Wanting To Study Medicine. It Was Not The Case.

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?