A farmer was driving along the road with a load of fertilizer. A little boy, playing in front of his house, saw him and called, "What've you got in your truck?"
"Fertilizer," the farmer replied.
"What are you going to do with it?" asked the little boy.
"Put it on strawberries," answered the farmer.
"You ought to live here," the little boy advised him. "We put sugar and cream on ours."
Pasteur quotationIn 1884, during a lecture presented at the University of Lille, Louis Pasteur made his much-quoted remark, "In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind" (Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés). Earlier in the same year, Pasteur had announced a vaccine against rabies in dogs. His work on rabies had begun in 1880, but progress was slow because he was dealing with a virus and that would not grow on artificial media. But eventually he applied his passaging technique with great success. With the universal application of this vaccine, he thought that the threat of rabies could surely be reduced if not eliminated. |
