For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 2005-2009, no. 29-33, Volume dedicated to our late member, George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine