Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.