Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Fly, Chapter I (p. 12), Dodd, Mead & Co. 1925

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Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.

Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.

Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.

Amid the ruins that surround me, one strip of wall remains standing, immovable upon its solid base: my passion for scientific truth.