Cudmore, L. L. Larison
L.L. Larison Cudmore holds a doctorate in biology from Yale and has taught at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts.

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All cell biologists are condemned to suffer an incurable secret sorrow: the size of the objects of their passion. The Center of Life, 1977.

 

Every living thing is made of cells, and everything a living thing does is done by the cells that make it up. Ibid.

 

All living things need their instruction manual (even nonliving things like viruses) and that is all they need, carried in one very small suitcase. Ibid.

 

If they needed to, twenty-five furtive cells could hide under this period. Ibid.

 

Ah, the architecture of this world. Amoebas may not have backbones, brains, automobiles, plastic, television, Valium or any other of the blessings of a technologically advanced civilization; but their architecture is two billion years ahead of its time. Ibid.

 

The amoeba had the architectural ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller before there was anyone around capable of having an idea. Ibid.

 

We are made of cells. And of stars. Ibid.

 

A giant redwood is 4,000 years old, perhaps, but it contains no cells that are older than a few years. Ibid.

 

Have care of your atoms, for such is the stuff that dreams are made
of - the yearning dreams of our immortality. Ibid.