"It is very strange that men should deny a creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in Robert H. Murray, Science and Scientists in the Nineteenth Century (1925), "Pasteur and Microbes", p. 237