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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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"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?"

"We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth."

"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."

"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, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself."

"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."

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

"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."

"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?"

"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, and its ills."

"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."
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