Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention.
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- Opening address at Lille, December7,1854; quoted in René Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur, chapterIV, translated by Mrs.R.L.Devonshire (1920 edition); Read dated introduction and full quoted passage on theory and practical discovery, pp75–77. Documented historical speech reproduced in biography, n
- Opening address at Lille, December7,1854; quoted in René Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur, chapterIV, translated by Mrs.R.L.Devonshire (1920 edition)
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