Work Usually Follows Will.

Whatever Your Career May Be, Do Not Let Yourselves Become Tainted By A Deprecating And Barren Scepticism.

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.

You Bring Me The Deepest Joy That Can Be Felt By A Man Whose Invincible Belief Is That Science And Peace Will Triumph Over Ignorance And War, That Nations Will Unite, Not To Destroy, But To Build, And That The Future Will Belong To Those Who Will Have Done Most For Suffering Humanity.

These Microscopic Organisms Form An Entire World Composed Of Species, Families And Varieties Whose History, Which Has Barely Begun To Be Written, Is Already Fertile In Prospects And Findings Of The Highest Importance. The Names Of These Organisms Are Very Numerous And Will Have To Be Defined And In Part Discarded. The Word Microbe Which Has The Advantage Of Being Shorter And Carrying A More General Meaning, And Of Having Been Approved By My Illustrious Friend, M. Littré, The Most Competent Linguist In France, Is One We Will Adopt.

It Is Not The Germs We Need Worry About. It Is Our Inner Terrain.