Work Usually Follows Will.

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.

If Science Has No Country, The Scientist Should Have One, And Ascribe To It The Influence Which His Works May Have In This World.

Nothing Is Lost And Nothing Is Created In The Operations Of Art As Those Of Nature.

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.

Oh My Goodness The Mystery That Has Prompted My Objective. My Quality Lies Exclusively In My Tirelessness.