Albert Claude

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. ↗

— Albert Claude

#as far as #been #cold #eight #even

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? ↗

— Albert Claude

#claim #entitled #everything #exclusion #experimental

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 then make of ourselves. ↗

— Albert Claude

#given #image #instruments #make #moment

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 struggle. ↗

— Albert Claude

#create #during #experiment #live #lives

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

#become #carry #conquests #forward #man

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 powers of his tools. ↗

— Albert Claude

#around #continue #doubt #ever #grow

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

— Albert Claude

#dimensions #einstein #faiths #new #newton

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

#bodies #detected #diameter #early #half

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 environment, and insure her survival. ↗

— Albert Claude

#cell #control #covered #earth #environment

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 this did not happen. ↗

— Albert Claude

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