The Nights Seem To Me Too Long...

I Propose To Provide Proof... That Just As Always An Alcoholic Ferment, The Yeast Of Beer, Is Found Where Sugar Is Converted Into Alcohol And Carbonic Acid, So Always A Special Ferment, A Lactic Yeast, Is Found Where Sugar Is Transformed Into Lactic Acid. And, Furthermore, When Any Plastic Nitrogenated Substance Is Able To Transform Sugar Into That Acid, The Reason Is That It Is A Suitable Nutrient For The Growth Of The [lactic] Ferment.

Without Theory, Practice Is But Routine Born Of Habit. Theory Alone Can Bring Forth And Develop The Spirit Of Invention. ... [do Not] Share The Opinion Of Those Narrow Minds Who Disdain Everything In Science Which Has Not An Immediate Application. ... A Theoretical Discovery Has But The Merit Of Its Existence: It Awakens Hope, And That Is All. But Let It Be Cultivated, Let It Grow, And You Will See What It Will Become.

One Must Not Assume That An Understanding Of Science Is Present In Those Who Borrow The Language

God Grant That By My Persevering Labours I May Bring A Little Stone To The Frail And Ill-assured Edifice Of Our Knowledge Of Those Deep Mysteries Of Life And Death Where All Our Intellects Have So Lamentably Failed.

Where Are The Real Sources Of Human Dignity, Freedom And Modern Democracy, If Not In The Concept Of Infinity To Which All Men Are Equal?