Blessed Is He Who Carries

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.

If You Suppress Laboratories, Physical Science Will Be Stricken With Barrenness And Death.

The Greeks Bequeathed To Us One Of The Most Beautiful Words In Our Language--the Word 'enthusiasm'--en Theos--a God Within. The Grandeur Of Human Actions Is Measured By The Inspiration From Which They Spring. Happy Is He Who Bears A God Within, And Who Obeys It.

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.

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.