Once Ptolemy And Plato, Yesterday Newton, Today

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.

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.

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?

For This Equilibrium Now In Sight, Let Us Trust That Mankind, As It Has Occurred In The Greatest Periods Of Its Past, Will Find For Itself A New Code Of Ethics, Common To All, Made Of Tolerance, Of Courage, And Of Faith In The Spirit Of Men.

Man, Like Other Organisms, Is So Perfectly Coordinated That He May Easily Forget, Whether Awake Or Asleep, That He Is A Colony Of Cells In Action, And That It Is The Cells Which Achieve, Through Him, What He Has The Illusion Of Accomplishing Himself.