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Apparently Biology Professor Luyet has no such philosophical worries. To him, a dehydrated organism is deprived of activity but is still potentially alive, "like a watch that has unwound." No such worries are deterring his superiors either. They have appointed Father Luyet director of the university's new Institute of Biophysics. And last week they were busy remodeling his laboratories. But neither the promotion nor the excitement in his laboratory was keeping Father Luyet from his strenuous routine. On the startling implications of his work he has only one comment: "I am only trying to communicate to others the love of truth."

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