"Pasteur at one point proved himself wrong, if this ([1]) is any guide. Pasteur apparently found life spawning from compost, but decided "only the Creator-God had ever exercised the power to convert the inanimate into the living" and suppressed his own work."
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I read in a book many years ago that the result was because of improper sterilization of equipment and other mistakes in the process. But at this time, I have nothing to back it up.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
"Pasteur at one point proved himself wrong, if this ([1]) is any guide. Pasteur apparently found life spawning from compost, but decided "only the Creator-God had ever exercised the power to convert the inanimate into the living" and suppressed his own work."
Help finding a new link for this? (The one it has is a 404 error.)
I read in a book many years ago that the result was because of improper sterilization of equipment and other mistakes in the process. But at this time, I have nothing to back it up.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett