I Am On The Edge

Since The Most Ancient Times, All Men, And Particularly Those Who Endeavored In The Practice Of Medicine, Have Brought Closer Together Two Natural Phenomena Of Capital Importance: Illness Or Fever And Fermentation.

To Demonstrate Experimentally That A Microscopic Organism Actually Is The Cause Of A Disease And The Agent Of Contagion, I Know No Other Way, In The Present State Of Science, Than To Subject The Microbe (the New And Happy Term Introduced By M. Sédillot) To The Method Of Cultivation Out Of The Body.

To Bring One's Self To Believe In A Truth That Has Just Dawned Upon One Is The First Step Towards Progress; To Persuade Others Is The Second.

It Is Surmounting Difficulties That Makes Heroes.

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.