Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
L' univers est dissymetrique...
Works Vol. 1 (1 June 1874) Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 102.
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Jordan is a Muslim country, with a deeply-rooted Christian community. Together, the Jordanian people make up an in- divisible society, friends and partners in building our country.
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