Once Ptolemy And Plato, Yesterday

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.

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.

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?

Until 1930 Or Thereabout Biologists [using Microscopes], In The Situation Of Astronomers And Astrophysicists, Were Permitted To See The Objects Of Their Interest, But Not To Touch Them; The Cell Was As Distant From Us, As The Stars And Galaxies Were From Them.

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.