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,… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894. — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life,… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
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