…a theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.

Louis Pasteur The Life of Pasteur, 1902

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Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · French chemist and microbiologist; pioneer of germ theory, pasteurization and vaccination against rabies. Wikipedia

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