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….

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions..

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, an….

Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the in….

If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long befo….

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 t….

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 o….

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of th….

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 ….

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological….

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 environm….

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….

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, ….

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 struggl….

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powe….

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 the….

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 ….

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, a….

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred bounda….

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as ear….

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. B….