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

—  Voltaire

From the Philosophic Dictionary, as quoted in The life of Pasteur http://archive.org/stream/scienceandscient029493mbp/scienceandscient029493mbp_djvu.txt (1902)
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