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Every Chemical Substance, Whether Natural Or Artificial, Falls Into One Of Two Major Categories, According To The Spatial Characteristic Of Its Form. The Distinction Is Between Those Substances That Have A Plane Of Symmetry And Those That Do Not. The Former Belong To The Mineral, The Latter To The Living World.

When One Works And Imagines And Dreams Of Nothing Else Than The Search For Answers That God Has Posed, It Is Difficult To Be So Still.

There Are Two Men In Each One Of Us: The Scientist, He Who Starts With A Clear Field And Desires To Rise To The Knowledge Of Nature Through Observations, Experimentation And Reasoning, And The Man Of Sentiment, The Man Of Belief, The Man Who Mourns His Dead Children, And Who Cannot, Alas, Prove That He Will See Them Again, But Who Believes That He Will, And Lives In The Hope – The Man Who Will Not Die Like A Vibrio, But Who Feels That The Force That Is Within Him Cannot Die.

To Demonstrate Experimentally That A Microscopic Organism Actually Is The Cause Of A Disease And The Agent Of Contagion, I Know No Other Way, In The Present State Of Science, Than To Subject The Microbe (the New And Happy Term Introduced By M. Sédillot) To The Method Of Cultivation Out Of The Body.

In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.