Pasteur rejected the [[theory of evolution]]:
{{cquote|When he was asked if he believed in evolution, he said, "no."<ref>https://www.allaboutscience.org/louis-pasteur-faq.htm</ref>}}
Pasteur's brilliant and daring development of the rabies vaccine and his use of it to save a 9-year-old boy's life after he had been repeatedly bitten by a rabid dog is one of the most inspiring incidents in all of science.<ref>https://www.vbivaccines.com/wire/louis-pasteur-attenuated-vaccine/</ref>
==Resistance to his ideas==