Luck Favors The Mind That

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

Preconceived Ideas Are Like Searchlights Which Illumine The Path Of The Experimenter And Serve Him As A Guide To Interrogate Nature. They Become A Danger Only If He Transforms Them Into Fixed Ideas-this Is Why I Should Like To See These Profound Words Inscribed On The Threshold Of All The Temples Of Science: 'the Greatest Derangement Of The Mind Is To Believe In Something Because One Wishes It To Be So.'

My Present And Most Fixed Opinion Regarding The Nature Of Alcoholic Fermentation Is This: The Chemical Act Of Fermentation Is Essentially A Phenomenon Correlative With A Vital Act, Beginning And Ending With The Latter. I Believe That There Is Never Any Alcoholic Fermentation Without Their Being Simultaneously The Organization, Development, Multiplication Of The Globules, Or The Pursued, Continued Life Of Globules Which Are Already Formed.

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

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.