Science Quotes

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.
-- Walters, Mark Jerome The Harper Book of Quotations.



"[Louis Pasteur's]... theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction.
"How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough
to develop into all these organic infusions? If that were true, they would be numerous enough to form a thick fog, as dense as iron."
--Pierre Pochet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, "The Universe:
The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small"