As Far As I Remember, Even Younger

Is It Absurd To Imagine That Our Social Behavior, From Amoeba To Man, Is Also Planned And Dictated, From Stored Information, By The Cells? And That The Time Has Come For Men To Be Entrusted With The Task, Through Heroic Efforts, Of Bringing Life To Other Worlds?

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?

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.

As Far As I Remember, Even Younger Than Eight, I Have Always Been Guided By Reason. Not Cold Reason, But That Which Leads To The Truth, To The Real, And To Sane Justice.

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.