One Does Not Ask Of One Who

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.

Virulence Appears In A New Light Which Cannot But Be Alarming To Humanity; Unless Nature, In Her Evolution Down The Ages (an Evolution Which, As We Now Know, Has Been Going On For Millions, Nay, Hundreds Of Millions Of Years), Has Finally Exhausted All The Possibilities Of Producing Virulent Or Contagious Diseases - Which Does Not Seem Very Likely.

Where Observation Is Concerned, Chance Favors Only The Prepared Mind.

Did You Ever Observe To Whom The Accidents Happen? Chance Favors Only The Prepared Mind.

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.