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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur's great discoveries came from his rigorous approach to experimentation, and he was famously “regarded as conforming with the biblical account of the creation.”
Helping One's Fellow Man
"One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me…"
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All Men Are Equal
"Where are the true sources of human dignity, of liberty, of modern democracy, unless they are contained in the idea of the infinite, before which all men are equal?"
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On Chance
"In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." –
[Pasteur, L. 1854. Lecture, University of Lille.] Read more...