Science Belongs To No One Country.

Are The Atoms Of The Dextroacid (tartaric) Grouped In The Spirals Of A Right-hand Helix Or Situated At The Angles Of An Irregular Tetrahedron, Or Arranged In Such Or Such Particular Unsymmetrical Fashion? We Are Unable To Reply To These Questions. But There Can Be No Reason For Doubting That The Grouping Of The Atoms Has An Unsymmetrical Arrangement With A Non-superimposable Image. It Is Not Less Certain That The Atoms Of The Laevo-acid Realize Precisely An Unsymmetrical Arrangement Of The Inverse Of The Above.

I Give Them Experiments And They Respond With Speeches.

The Universe Is An Asymmetrical Entity. I Am Inclined To Believe That Life As It Is Manifested To Us Must Be A Function Of The Asymmetry Of The Universe Or Of The Consequence Of This Fact. The Universe Is Asymmetrical; For If One Placed The Entire Set Of Bodies That Compose The Solar System, Each Moving In Its Own Way, Before A Mirror, The Image Shown Would Not Be Superimposable On The Reality.

A Bottle Of Wine Contains More Philosophy Than All The Books In The World.

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.