The Greatest Disorder Of The Mind Is

If It Is A Terrifying Thought That Life Is At The Mercy Of The Multiplication Of These Minute Bodies [microbes], It Is A Consoling Hope That Science Will Not Always Remain Powerless Before Such Enemies.

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.

A Bottle Of Wine Contains More Philosophy Than All The Books In The World.

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.

My Opinion - Nay More, My Conviction - Is That, In The Present State Of Science, As You Rightly Say, Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera; And It Would Be Impossible For You To Contradict Me, For My Experiments All Stand Forth To Prove That Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera.