Monday, March 29, 2010

Quotes: Science (6)


Science            161          "...but unhappily he [Pasteur] said no word about those numerous occasions when his vaccine had killed sheep instead of protecting them." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            162          Koch: "...was Mr. Pasteur really burning so with a passion for truth...why hadn’t he told of the bad results as well as the good ones, that had followed the wholesale use of his vaccine...perhaps suitable for the advertising business house, but science should reject them vigorously...." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            167         " ...this brute died...so that thousands of mankind might live." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            173          Pasteur: "I am much inclined to begin on myself--inoculating myself with rabies, and then arresting the consequences; for I am beginning to feel very sure of my results...." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            177          "It was to save babies that they killed so many guinea-pigs." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

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