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.
As a privileged survivor of the First World War I hope I may be allowed to...
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate...
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic...
