Growing points of immunology 183 ANTIGEN PROCESSING GENESIS NTIBODY FORMATI
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'At a time in history, when the earth was thought to be flat, a complete solution of geography was clearly not possible. Someone might have said: "For each continent that is discovered there are ten continents beyond". It turned out, however, that the earth is round, and by the time the explorers reached Australia on their way around the globe, it was evident that geography was, in principle, solved.... It follows that, similar to geography, biology is finite, and ... in principle solved .... I predict that immunology will be completely solved within 50 years from now' (Jerne, 1969).
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