CHAPTER 11 



Amphisbaena 



. . . et tu in te manes, nos autem in experimentis volvimur? 



AUGUSTINUS I CONFESSIONES | IV, 5 



'Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone; 

 All just supply, and all Relation. 



DONNE I AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD 

 THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, 213-4 



Nay, so devoted are we to this principle, and at the same 

 time so curiously mechanical, that a new trade, specially 

 grounded on it, has arisen among us, under the name of 

 "Codification" , or code-making in the abstract; whereby any 

 people, for a reasonable consideration, may be accom- 

 modated with a patent code; — more easily than curious 

 individuals with patent breeches, for the people does not 



need to be measured first. 



CARLYLE I SIGNS OF THE TIMES (1829) 



Two men sit on a bench, in August 1961, an Old Chemist (O) 

 and a Young Molecular Biologist (Y). 



o: 



Now that I have you here for a few minutes of quiet talk, I shall 

 start by saying: The cell is not a machine. 



y: 

 But what kind of a start would that be? Do you want me to agree? 

 This would be surely stupid, for there are all sorts of machines, 

 and you have probably never heard of the theory of automata. 

 I should much rather turn your saying around and offer: A 

 machine is a cell. 



o: 

 We are then already in the middle of model building, the favorite 

 occupation of modern biophysics. It is all done in front of mir- 



