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INTRODUCTION Biology, at present, is a molecular science. Our body is built of molecules, mainly protein macromolecules, and so it seems logical to believe that all biological reactions have to be molecular, making life into a molecular phenomenon. The charm of biology is in the wonderful subtlety of its reactions, and I could never believe that they could be brought about by clumsy macromolecules without the participation of much smaller, mobile and responsive units which could be hardly anything else than delocalized and highly reactive electrons. That there was a major gap in our basic knowledge, that our whole outlook on life may be defective, was suggested to me also by the complete stag-nation of research into the nature of cancer and the other degen-erative diseases. We may have been “fishing behind the net,” and the macromolecules may have been more the stage than the actors of the drama of life. The first step towards the solution of the “cancer problem” had to be the filling of this gap. As Bernal told us, we can control only what we understand. When I gave expression to these ideas (A. Szent-GyOrgyi, 1941), which I developed partly in discussions with my young friend and pupil K. Laki, I met general opposition and was told that highly reactive and delocalized electrons would react with photons, and make the proteins colored or opaque, while the…Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.