If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

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.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

Chance favours the trained mind.