“ Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ”
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
~ Jean Rostand
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
