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“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”

Quote by Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist, known as the father of microbiology. He made significant contributions to the fields of fermentation, vaccination, and bacteriology, most notably with the invention of the pasteurization process. Pasteur's research had a profound impact on modern medicine and biology. more

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“Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.”

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“The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.”

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“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.”

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Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday