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The microbe feuds. (Showdown In A Paris Theater).(feud between Louis Pasteur and Felix Archimedes Pouchet over spontaneous generation)
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On April 7, 1864, more than 500 of France's most famous scientists, journalists, artists, and novelists crowded into an auditorium at the Sorbonne, a Paris university. They had come to see a scientific demonstration.
An elegantly dressed man stepped onto the stage. "I think we've had quite enough of poetry, enough fantasy, and enough of intuitive solutions," he said. "It is time for the true method, that of science, to assert and exercise its rights." The man's name was Louis Pasteur.
He walked to a table bearing oddly shaped bottles, a microscope, and a ...
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