“…whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a…”

…whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the sadness of certain hours which pass over nations.

Louis Pasteur The Life of Pasteur, 1902

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Author: Louis Pasteur
Source: The Life of Pasteur
Type: book
Year: 1902
Locator: Vol. II, ch. VII: jubilee address at the Sorbonne, 27 December 1892
Translator: Mrs. R. L. Devonshire
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co.
Rights: Public domainPublic domain in the USCC0, no rights reservedProtected work, short quotation
Check it: https://archive.org/details/b29005942_0002

Pasteur’s own words, quoted in his son-in-law’s biography.

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