The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
Interpretation
Wine and poetry both offer subtlety and depth, enhancing our experiences through sensory engagement.
In this quote, Louis Pasteur highlights the exquisite nature of wine, comparing its complex and nuanced flavors to the delicate craft of poetry. Just as poetry evokes emotions and imagery through careful word choice and structure, the intricate flavors of wine can evoke feelings and memories, creating a rich sensory experience that transcends the ordinary.
In practice
During a wine tasting event, one might introduce this quote to highlight the artistic aspect of wine appreciation.
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
Chance favors those who are prepared.
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
I make clothes, women make fashion.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.
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