Albert Claude Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But…
• 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…
• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
• 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…
• 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…
• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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