Ego Friendly

Many of us have heard of Louis Pasteur and if we haven’t, we at least know we should. His discovery and work in Microbiology and Germ Theory led to the process of heating certain liquids to remove bacteria that can make people sick- a process aptly called Pasteurization. But it is his advances in the field of vaccination that is our subject for today.

We’ve all heard various stories about great scientific minds “stumbling” upon discovers; Pasteur and his sick chickens, Fleming and his bread mold and even the apocryphal Newton and the apple story. What all these stories miss is that every one of these men was busy working, scientifically, at solving the very problem they “just happened” to Discover. It is only because they were already working at these issues, immersed in all the details of their disciplines, that they were able to make the connections that led to their big breakthroughs. As Pasteur himself once noted, “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.”

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