The Universe Is Asymmetric.

Fortune Favors The Well-prepared.

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.

Great Problems Are Now Being Handled, Keeping Every Thinking Man In Suspense; The Unity Or Multiplicity Of Human Races; The Creation Of Man 1,000 Years Or 1,000 Centuries Ago; The Fixity Of Species, Or The Slow And Progressive Transformation Of One Species Into Another; The Eternity Of Matter; The Idea Of A God Unnecessary: Such Are Some Of The Questions That Humanity Discusses Nowadays.

It Is A Matter Of Fact; I Approached Without A Preconceived Idea, Too Ready To Declare, If The Experiment Had Imposed Upon Me The Confession, That There Was A Spontaneous Generation, Of Which I Am Convinced Today That Those Who Assure It Are Blindfolded.

Inspiration Is The Impact Of A Fact On A Well-prepared Mind