This Attempt To Isolate Cell Constituents Might

For The Resolving Powers Of Our Scientific Instruments Decide, At A Given Moment, Of The Size And The Vision Of Our Universe, And Of The Image We Then Make Of Ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

It Is The Cells Which Create And Maintain In Us, During The Span Of Our Lives, Our Will To Live And Survive, To Search And Experiment, And To Struggle.