Chance Favors Those Who Are Prepared.

Outsidetheir Laboratories, Thephysicianand Chemist Are Soldiers Without Arms On The Field Of Battle.

In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.

My Opinion - Nay More, My Conviction - Is That, In The Present State Of Science, As You Rightly Say, Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera; And It Would Be Impossible For You To Contradict Me, For My Experiments All Stand Forth To Prove That Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera.

Are The Atoms Of The Dextroacid (tartaric) Grouped In The Spirals Of A Right-hand Helix Or Situated At The Angles Of An Irregular Tetrahedron, Or Arranged In Such Or Such Particular Unsymmetrical Fashion? We Are Unable To Reply To These Questions. But There Can Be No Reason For Doubting That The Grouping Of The Atoms Has An Unsymmetrical Arrangement With A Non-superimposable Image. It Is Not Less Certain That The Atoms Of The Laevo-acid Realize Precisely An Unsymmetrical Arrangement Of The Inverse Of The Above.

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