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|title=Louis Pasteur: Doctrine of Spontaneous Generation
|author=John L. Wilson
|publisher=Stanford Medical History Center
|date=17 November 2011
|accessdate=02 April 2013
|url=http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/html/chap5/chap5-sect6.html
|quote=Pasteur considered the matter closed. Nevertheless, the dispute dragged on and we can detect his exasperation in the tone of his lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864 when he outlined the history of the controversy and concluded by saying:[139] "Gentlemen, I could point to that liquid (in the flask of sterile culture medium on the table before him) and say to you, I have taken my drop of water from the immensity of creation, and I have taken it full of the elements appropriated to the development of inferior beings. And I wait, I watch, I question it, begging it to recommence for me the beautiful spectacle of the first creation. But it is dumb, dumb since these experiments were begun several years ago; it is dumb because I have kept it from the only thing man cannot produce, from the germs which float in the air, from Life, for Life is a germ and a germ is Life. Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow of this simple experiment.
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid."
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Philosopher of science Sir [[Karl Popper]] proposed that mankind may be "faced with the possibility that the [[origin of life]] (like the origin of physics) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to [[Reductionism|reduce]] biology to [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]."
Philosopher of science Sir [[Karl Popper]] proposed that mankind may be "faced with the possibility that the [[origin of life]] (like the origin of physics) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to [[Reductionism|reduce]] biology to [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]."
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